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New Series. J
TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1847,
Vol. 5.-No. 33
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THE SHIPWRECK.
. BY FIXLEY JOHXSOX.
The night was lone," and the star ray slept
All brignt on wave and lea; . ..
And the Tempest-king,' drear vigils kept
O'er the wide Atlantic sea.
T . . . i
The night was lone, and the murmuring
.Of slumber stole along; train
And softly whispering o'er the main
Was borne the sea-bov's song.
lie sung of home, and the simple charms
The cot of his father knew;
lie sung of the joy of a mother's arms,
And he sung of the maiden true.
The note was wild, the artless lay,
v. His dirge ! would soon be o'er; -His
bosom was light but ere the day
That bosom should beat no more !
The ship was proud and gallant her trim,
Her banners swept the wave;
But ere the lamps of Heaven grew dim,
That flag should deck her grave.
At the midnigLt hour, was heard the cry,
- The shriek of sad despair;
At dawn was hush'd the billowy sigh,
i And the pale moon glimmer' d fair.
At the midnight hour, when the sea-boy's
Is hushed in lonely dread, song
He hears sweet music steal along
'Tis the moan of the hapless dead !
gr " 'i
FROM TJIE X. O. NATIONAL. '
Col, Doniphan's Expedition.'
' The arrival of Colonel Doniphan and
his regiment in this city has created an
unusual degree of interest, although it has
for the last fifteen months been wrought
lip to the highest pitch of. excitement by
military novelties. A full and carefully
writtrn' history of Col. Doniphan's expe
dition would be a volume of rare interest,
and develope not only - strange military
id venture, but call the attention of anti
quarians and others, to nations living on
our continent, of whose existence wc
have been heretofore ignorant, and whose
manners and customs fill the mind with
astonishment. ' While listening to the de
tails of these stem Missouri warriors, we
have felt for months as if some ancient
Spanish grave had yielded up a follower
Df Cortez, to recount his adventures and
personal experience as he progressed to
wards the capital of the Montezumas.
It presents a wonderful picture, this mar
ching of a few hundred men through po
pulous states, conquering their inhabitants
in pitched battles, and occupying their
cities arid towns as garrisons. Men,
who, up to the time they enlisted under
the banner of their county, were employ
ed exclusively in the arts of peace, using
the rifle only as a source of amusement,
and looking to the annual return of the
militia muster as a subject of ridicule,
Vet when a demand is made upon them,
they seem easily to put on the panoply
of the ancient crusader, and to go forth
conquering as if they had been schooled
in the camp, and been disciplined from
youth amidst the clamor of war. .Of
such materials is composed this mighty
race of North Americans, who seem des
tined to overshadow the greatness of all
nations of times past; and who are called
upon to enact a part in the present and fu
ture more sublimely great than has ever
yet been accorded by Providence to any
people. .
. Col, Doniphan is a man of giant frame,
of that loose carriage peculiar to the west,
that deceives the eye as to proportion and
strength. 'We can imagine that his gi
gantic arm must have wielded his huge
sabre in the heat of battle with a force
that not only struck down the foe, but lit
eral! annihilated him; that each succes
sive swoop, opened wide avenues for his
advance, as did Cortez among the crow
ded ranks of the" warlike Tlascalans.
His officers and men have a strange un
couth appearance; piece meal, the ill-made
clothing of the volunteers have fallen from
them, and they have supplied its place
with what chance and the wild beasts of
New Mexico have thrown in their way.
Their sun-burnt faces, grizzly beards, and
withal, their devil-may-care air, is perfect
ly irresistible. Yet beneath those rough
exteriors, are concealed minds of educa
ted and high-toned sentiments, full of I of.
ty thoughts and love of liberty; minds
lhat arc destined to be felt in the councils
of the nation, and play a prominent part
in the stirring events of the limes.
Col. Doniphan's command was mus
tered into service on the 1 5th of June,
!817fat Fort Leavenworth. On the 22d
f June a portion of the command started
for Bent's Fort, on the Arkansas, and on
ihe28ihCol. Doniphan left with the re
mainder of the icgiment for the same des
tination, ; Prom Dent's Fort the com
m:md proceeded together to Santa Fe,
v. hich is eight' hundred and seventy-five
i.iles from Fort Leavenworth, and two
1 !rvl miles from Bent's ForL On the
lc h d y'dt August, Col,. Don iphun!; ar
rived at Santa Fe. At Los Vegos, the
first settlement in New Mexico, informa-
tion uW received that the enemv had col- i
lected"about two or three thousand at a !
pass ten miles in advance. The order of
battle was formed, the infantry passed o- '
ver the mountains,
onomr in . Iria rmi
so as to ; attacii the;
the ..Mexicans fell
viiui y &ic wit ivoi f
back without giving battle until they ar-'
rived within fifteen . miles of Santa Fc, at
one of the strongest passes in , Mexico,;
where they cut -down timber and raised j
fortifications. To this strong-pass the;
Governor came from Santa Fe, bringing
with him seven pieces of artillery, one of
which was a six pouiider that had been
taken from the Texan Rangers in the cel
ebrated Santa Fe expedition,; and an ad
ditional force, augmenting the one al-.
ready at the pass to the number of about '
four thousand. ; - " j
Col. Doniphan' encamped within three
miles of the enemy, and the next morning
resumed . the order of march, and found
they had deserted their works and fled.
On the same day the Americans took for- .
inal possession of Santa Fe. In a few
days thev were enabled to capture the
Uiiio nicy tie cujuicu iu voijhuu
artillery, which the Mexicans were at-
tempting to smuggle off, and the whole of
New Mexico fell into our possession
without a gun being fired.
Gen. Kearney's proceedings at Santa
Fe are familiar with the public. As ri
diculous as they appear, there is good
reason to suppose that the General has
his orders for his justification, hich will
appear in due time.
Shortly after the conquest of New
Mexico, Gen. Kearney started with an es
cort of one hundred men for California.
Before his departure, he gave orders to
Col. Doniphan to make a campaign a
gainst the Navajo Indians, living in the
Rocky Mountains, between the Del Norte
and Pacific Ocean, and then to report to
Gen. Wool, at Chihuahua, where it was
understood General . Wool would be be
fore Col. Doniphan could reach there.
The second regiment of Missouri volun
teers having arrived in : New Mexico on
the 26th of October, Col. Doniphan com
menced his campaign against the Nava-
JOS. . , '
The Navajos were a large tribe of In
dians who had been at war with the Mexi
cans for two hundred and fifty years, and
lived entirely iiton plunder taken from
lhat people. At the earnest solicitation of
the Mexicans, Gen. Kearney ordered the
expedition of our troops against them.
Col. Doniphan divided his command into
three columns, one of which entered the
Navajo country about two hundred miles
north of Santa Fe, under the command of
Mijor Gilpin, the other wo columns en
tering it in the west and south west, un
der the commands of Col. Doniphan and
Lieut. Col. Jackson.
The column under Maj. Gilpin marched
to" the source ofthe Chanas, and crossing
the Sierra Madre, descended to the waters
of the San Juan, one of the branches of
the Colorado of the west, marched down
the river in the direction of the Pacific,
and crossing the mountains again, formed
a junction with Col. Doniphan's com
mand at the Ojoso'; having performed a
march of over six hundred miles, over
mountains covered with .snow, Miij. GiN
pin brought with him a great number of
chiefs, all of whom professed great friend
ship for the American nation. At the 0
joso, , Col. Doniphan met the ' principal
chiefs of the tribe and great warriors,
probably five hundred in number, and
there made - a treaty stipulating, entire
firendship between the . Navajos and A
mericans and Mexicans.' 1 ' , . ,
The march performed hy.Mnjor Gilpin
was one of the most arduous in the cam
paign. The country through which he
travelled did not permit the way for a
baggage train, and his stores had to be
carried upon the backs of a few mules.
He was continually surrounded by snow
and storms, and among mountain passes
never before threaded by the foot of man.
There will be a thrilling interest in a nar
rative of lhat journey not to be met with
in the most highly wrought fiction.
The Navajo Indians are a warlike peo
ple, have no towns or houses, or lodges ;
they live in the opcnair'or on horseback,
and are remarkably wealthy, having im
mense herds of horses, cattle, and, sheep.
They treat their women with great atten
tion, consider them" equals, ' and relieve
them from the drudgery of menial worii..
They are , handsome, "well made ami in
everv respect a higner. orcier oi oemy
thran the mass of their neighbours, the
Mexicans. About -the time Col. Doni
phan made his treaty, a division of his
command was entirely out of provisions :
the Navajos supplied its want9 with liber
nlity. A portion of the command returned
to Cuvano ; Maj. Gupm s command, to
gether with Col. Doniphan - went to the
city of the Sumai Indians, on the Ro Pis
cow, which is supposed to be a branch
of the Geyle, made a treaty of peace be
tween the Sumai and Navajos, and then
returned to the Rio del Norte. : r
These Sumai, unlike ihe Navajos, live
in a city eontaing probably GOOO inhabi-
lants, who support themselves entirely bv
. 7 Thejcity is bneof the' most extraordi -
nary in the world. Ills divided into four
fcolid-iuarcei having but tw
viSg-'but two Vtitetys-Iat
sing its centre "at right, angles. All the j
buildings are two stories high, composed.
of sunburnt, brick. . 1 he, nrst story ,
presents a solid wall to the street, and is
so constructed that eacti nouse joins, until
one-fonruYof ihe city may be said to be
onebuildm?. . The second stones rise
from this" vast 'solid structure, so as to
designate each house, - leaving room to
walk upon the roof -of the first story be
tween each building. . The inhabitants of
Sumai enter the second story of their
buildings . by ladders, ' which.they draw,
up at night, as a defence rgainst any ene
my that mightbe prowling about. In this
city was seen some thirty Albino Indians
who have, no donbt, given rise to the sto
ry that there is living in the' Rocky Moun
tains a tribe of white aborigines. '.The
discovery of this city of the Sumai will
afford the most curious speculations a
mong those who have so long .searched
in vain for a city of Indians, who pos
sessed the manners and habits of the A t
zees. No doubt we have here, a race liv
ing as did the people when Cortez en
tered Mexico. - It is a .remarkable fact,
that the Sumaians have, since the Span
l...... i t
ds left the country, refused to have any
intercourse with the modern ;iU ex icans,
looking upon them .as an inferior people.
They have driven from among them the
priests and other dignitaries, who formerly
had power over them, and resumed habits
and manners of their, own -their Great
Chief or Governor, being the civil and
religious head. The country round the
city of Sumai is cultivated with great deal
of "care, and affords food hot only for the
inhabitants, but for large flocks of cattle
and sheep. ' ' . .
Col. Doniphan arrived aUhe Del Norte
on the 12th of December. On the 14th
he started Maj. Gilpin in the direction of
El Passo, with two hundred ' and fifty
men ; on the 16th, Lieut. CoU Jackson,
with two hundred men ; on the 10th, he
started in person with the remainder of
his" regiment. . The division was made
for the purpose of passing the Jornado
del.' Muerto, which . is a desert ninety
miles : wide without wood or water.
On the 22d Col. Doniphan overtook
Maj. Gilpin, at the little Mexican town of
Dona Anna. On the morning of the 23d
the whole regiment commenced its march
for El Passo, - .:-......
On the 25th the-
regiment was divided.
having a very
strong rear
guard behind
the lrro-are train. .1 lie advance ot the
'irsrage
column, numbering about five hundred,
halted to camp about three o'clock in the
afternoon,' on the bank, of the Rio del
Norte, at a point called Brazito, or the
Little Arm. . Just as the horses had been
turned loose, and the men - were waiting
for the wagons to come up with their
cooking utensils, two ofthe advance guard
came in and -reported that there was a
cloud of dust in the road in front.- Au
observation was made as soon as practi
cable, and a large body of Mexicans was
seen approaching. Our troops were then
drawn out and formed as skirmishers.
The enemy approached within less than
half a mile bclore our men were formed.
A. Lieutenant from the enemy's rjnks
then approached our line, demanding that
the. American commander should go to
their camp, and lhat unless he did so, they
would charge- his-IinCr-iiid that they
would neither give nor ask quarters. Our
interpretor, in reply, ordered the Mexican
to. charge and be -. . The Mexican
then waved a black flag he held in his
hand, and retired to his own column,
now formed in battle array. '
- 1 UC .Uciliaiis, i.itvi;u,iiuiiun.u cuui,
then charged with 'heir cavalry supported
by their infantry, and one piece of ordi
nance -a bmss howitzer." , Col. Doni
phan ordered lhat no one should tire until
the enemy was within one hundred yards.
The Mexicans 'commenced firing at
the distance of three hundred yards ; their
firing was not returned until they had
given three' rounds, while ' constantly ad
vancing. When within less than one
hundred yards', Col. : Doniphan ordered
his -troops to fire, which was simulta
neously done from right to left. At the
fire of the "odd numbers." ihe Mexican
line halted, and at the fire of the "even
numbers" they began to fall back, except
the Vera Cruz dragoons an old and well
known Mexican corps. It attempted to
pass our line on the left, when Capt. Reed
having succeeded in mounting about twen
ty meni charged the dragoons, sixty strong
and aided by the firing from our lines,
forced it to retreat in a few moments,
which it did slowly, continuing to fight
for more than a mile. The battle of
Brazito then terminated, having been
fought in twenty seven minutes ! The
los.of the enemy was sixty" three killed
and a hundred wounded ; iof this loss the
heaviest was with the Vera Cruz dragoons'
this brave company only being able to
muster twenty-one at the subsequent de
fence of Chihuahua : injury to the Amen
cans seven wounded. ! : - " '
On the 27th Col. Doniphan look for
mal possession of the town of El Passo ;
where : he learned that General Wool
would not - be at Chihuahua, to form a
f junction with him ; he had'eonsequenUy,
! back" to Santa Fe 1 for artillery, having
none withhim, except the piece captured
tire battle of -Ur.siw; --. : -
; On the 5th of February, Maj.' Clark,
ofthe Missouri light artillery, arrived at
EI Passo, bringingvith him one hundred
"men, commanded by Captain Weightman
with fire 0-pounders"and two 12-pounder
howitzers, and On the 8th took up his line
of march for the city of Chihuahua. ' ,
: The events that followed- arct familiar
through the official reports of the battle of
Sacramento." 5 ' . "
Chihuahua, the capital of the State of
Chihuahua, is a city of about: fourteen
thousand inhabitants, and of remarkable
beauty. It is situated on a plain, between
two high mountains that rise in the. east
and west. - At the north and 'south, the
country, as far as the eye can reach, is
open, and interspersed with farms". The
buildings, many of which are very hand
some, are composed of white porphyry,
that is easily wrought when first taken
from the quarry," but by exposure to the
air becomes very. hard. : The old Span
iards who originally built it, conveyed
from a mountain four miles distant,
through a stone canal, the waters of a
spring. . ? This abundant fountain rises in
the centre of the grand plaza, overflows
an octagonal basin, and. then pursues its
way over the whole city. The plaza is
surrounded by seats, with backs, carved
put of the solid stone. At this place
could nightly be seen the entire popula
tion of Chihuahua, indulging themselves
in gossip and idleness. ..
- As an evidence of the riches of the
mines of Chihuahua, under the Spaniards
it is stated that the magnificent church of
that city, which is of immense; propor
tions, and ornamented by three towers of
solid stone, was built. at a cost of six hun
dred thousand dollars, and that this im
mense sum was raised by a tax of one
bit on every eight dollars coined in the
mines. These silver mines are as rich
as they ever were, and inexhaustable; but
the Indians have driven the Mexicans
from the richest of them, and the people
are too lazy to work those in their pos
session. - , .
... When our army left Chihuahua, there
was no organized government, the Mexi
can Governor, Trias, fled on Col. Doni
phan's approach, and left him sole arbiter
of the country. Col. Doniphan departed
leaving the city and the state to take care
of themselves a prey to the first aspirant
that wished for temporary power. ,
; The country of New Mexico, and the
two Californias, are represented by our
troops to be perfectly worthless,, ercept
for the harbors on the Pacific coast. No
American will ever make a home in either
ofthe States, and its possession will be a
curse to the country. The whole of it is
in arid plain, almost destitute of water,
"with but here and there a green spotand
never would have been occupied by any
civilized people, but for the rage for gold
that inspired the early and adventurous
Spauiards.
. Gambling. The first arrest under the
new gambling law that went into opera
tions few days ago, was made on Friday.
It was that of i colored man named Adam
WilleU who is charged with maintaining
a gambling-house in Mavland street. He
was committed by Alderman Snider in de
fault of $1000 bail to answer. North A
merican. .
Thus it always is. Laws were only
made for the poor the rich arc but rare
ly made to bear their penalties. Why
do we not hear that the keepers of the
splendid "hells" in Chesnut "street, al
most under the very windows of the
Courts, and to which the great folks re
sort, were arrested and committed for tn.
al, as well as this poor colored man, who
doubtless has not one-twentieth part their
guilt to answer. Lehigh Rep.
A Wouo to Boys. The "Learned
Blacksmith" says: Boys did you ever
think of this great world, with all its
wealth and woe, with all its mines and
mountains, its oceans, seas and rivers,
with all its shipping, men, and all the
sciences and progress of ages, will soon
be given over to the hands of the boys of
the present age ? Boys like you assem
bled in the school rooms or playing with
out them, on both fcides of the Atlantic ?
Believe it, look abroad upon your inheri
tance, and getre uly to enter upon its pos
session. The King, Presidents, Gover
nors," Statesmen, Ministers, Teachers,
Men of the future,' are all boys, whose
feet, like your?, cannot reach the floor,
when seated upon the benches on which
thev arc learning to master the monosyla-
blcs of their respective languages.
- John Quincy Adams completed the 80th
year of his active and eventful life on
Sunday the 11th inst. ; And on the same
day, a Boston paper informs us, Timothy
Farrar of Hollis, N. IL, and Dr. Ezra
Green of Dover, N. II. each completed
his 100th year.
- Ther officers. of the : Second Regiment
of Illinois Volunteers on their arrival at
New Orleans-presented trr Col. Wm. JI.
Bissell ah elegant gold Watch, as a mark
of their regard and citccm- for1 thair gal
. lar.tbrjnuud-erv" :: !
M EM O R Y
BY "LOO AN.
E'en while among the gay I smile,
My heart, alas ! is far away; i
It dwelleth on some gentle song '
That I have heard in happier time, ?
Or wand' reth; gloomily, amid
The faded llow'rs of Memory. ,
A look a -a tone "a careless word"
Will bring back joys that I have known;
Then, as the captured bird will speed
To all it loves when free once more,
So flies my sadden'd heart, alas !
To the far fields of Memory.
: x
More of tho Walsr Care, ,
The Bratlleborough man of the New
Haven Herald lias set us shivering in the
plunge bath, steamed us half-to death in
the wet sheet, and in divers other ways
given us a lively experience of tfie walery
matcria medica. Now he crushes us un
der the aggravated shower-bath enormity
of ihe uoucte. t
Hydropathic IIovsk,
Brattledorough, June 28, 1817.
It would be an injurious error to sup
pose 'that any ofthe more powerful modes
of treatment, as the plunge, douche, and
running sitz, are ever applied in the first
instance or abruptly. On the. contrary,
every one of these is preluded by a care-
ful preparation, consisting of a graduated
system of baths, beginning at seventy-five
or eighty degrees, descending by one de
degrce, every one, two, or three days, to
the natural temperature, most unnaturally
cold ; just as an apothecary would slowly
increase doses of laudanum, drop by drop;
and even whon for any reason the treat
ment is for a while suspended, it is often
recommended in the same manner as at
first, and finally is as gradually termina
ted. There is no haste in letting us
down into the pool of health, for here the
waters are always angel-stirred.
Accordingly it must not be thought
that the douche about to bo described is
suddenly applied to a weak invalid, just
out of this flannel, bed-gown, and slip
pers. -Yet though never administered so
roughly as to endanger the health, it may
in analogy to cup3 and calomel, often hutt
the feelings.
After from two weeks to two months
of preparation, the patient whose case
needs it is promoted to the douche, and
is seen stepping off, with a proud look on
hid face and a sheet on his arm, bound for
the douche houses, halfa mile distant,
on the other side of the ravine. He here
begins with the very mild river douche ;
but without following him through the
transitions to the hose douche, to the mid
dle douche, and from that to the grand,
extra potent, heavy we!, scocdolager
douche, we will sketch his first interview
with the latter.
On his way there be meets a fellow
sufferer, who asks, "Where away so fast,
iiiv friend ?" "Congratulate me, my
good fellow, I am going to the big one,
to take it five minutes at the first start.
Is it really very hard to take V "O, no,
I have just come from it a mere bagatelle
but here, as you are going in for the
first time, I may as well bid you good
bye for if any thing shuuiJ happen it is a
satisfaction, you know." "Goad bye."
He goes to a dill-? rent house from any
he has yet entercvl, and, opening a door,
perceives he has made a mistake, and
closes it quickly, but not before having a
full view of truly a strange spectacle. A
genth:inan, who.-eonly cloihiug in actual
wear is a pair of pantaloons, down at the
calves, dusty boots, and a nicely brushed
hat, is seated navel dep in . a small square
tub, full of water, and with folded arms
looks pens-ivcly at his watch. He is en
during the running sitz so called because
the water is kept at the lowest tempera
ture, by means of a constant stream from
a spring near bv, conducted in at the hot-
i i- in 1 1 1 1 Kit MTift irn c ! rri'i t
earned off
from near the toP ofthe tub. It is usual-
1 . .
ly taken lrom ten to twentv minutes, and
is esteemed bv mauv the most comforting
of all thr? baths. The water never being
warmed by the body, it isnhe same thing
as miking your sest in a spring, and ful
ly comes up to the idea of 4cold comfort.'
V enlythis same running sitz is some-
ihirw worth mprit'iiMin r in .Tulv- Thrums
CarFvle would like it: no doubt he would,
for he -loves every thing
sham, and this is no sham,
that is not a
bv no means,
but a stern realitv.
Our "live subject enters the? right door
and commences to prepare his body and
compose his mind for the operation. As
he undresses he screws up his resolu
tions by calling to mind the bold deeds
of ancient heroes, t and particularly those
of our Revolutionary ancestors how
Stony Point was stormed, how old Put
entered the wolfs den, and how Samuel
Patch jumped off the falls ; but his mind
continually reverts to a calculation in hy
drostatics, to wit, if a column of water
so big" and fifteen feet high comes down
with such force, what must be-the power
of one. twice as. larga and twenty feet
high?- " ' ' '
Meviule 3f:?.-Bemi:-, a daise of for-
ty-fivcr who docs up the part of nymph
of the foundations, has left on the water,
and it roars and splashes in the inner
dungeon like a demon roaring for hi
victim. ' Our subject, thinking his time
has come, takes his bandages in hand,
casts a gkiRce at ihe watch to time him
self, presses his wife daguerreotype to his
lips, and opens the door, but it is not yet
his turn another man U "taking it," and
our live subject is aghast at the sight of a
bony Apollo sprawling on his hands and
knees on the floor, who, with teeth firm
ly set, is receiving the spout on the small
of the back.
The effect of ihe stream pouring into
the room is to make the air as cold as
winter ; and though it was July outside,
by the time you are undressed and stand
in expectant dread on the threshold it has
become January. The roorti is high and
dark; the steps by which you descend in
to are lucked with the axe, telling of ico
chopped away in mid-winter. Tha
Stream has come fresh from the cold bow
els of mother earth and sees no daylight
tilt it-lights on the subject's shoulders.
The sight before him takes away all our
friend's resolutions, and nothing bul tho
thoughtthathe has come a thousand miles
expressly to be subjected to the mercies
of ibis water. Moloch, and he thought
that if any thing short of ihe ultimate
trumpet can arouse his torpid liver to
healthy actiou this thing must do it, tha
fear of ridicule and the hope of a cris's
keeps up his nerves. Now the bony
Apollo dashes out and our friend is left
alone iii that dismal den, alone with that
douche and his own conscience. Ho
flings ulowu his bandages, clasps his
hands, and raising them, as in supplica
tion, 'ovtr his head, steps beneath tho
spout, which -, he receives first on his
hand;? thus clasped ; this is to break tha
stream into a-kind of a shower bath,
which wets him all over at the outset.
He then .receives, it successively on all
parts of the body, but the head, chest.
stomach, abdomen, and calves of the legs;
all other parts now feel the full force of
this "heavy wet" in a way that calls for
some little effort to keep the breath of
life in the lungs. .. :
Whatever calculations in hydrostatics
he may have made, he now realizes for
the first time the Mi force of ihe theory.
Talk of a thousand of brick I It is no
sort of a simile for the way in which this
water comes down upon him. Most re
lentless douche ! Persevering torrent !
Magnificient waterpower to set the wheels
of life in motion ! Who can feel it and
doubt the potency of water to cure or
kill, and not look with contempt on tho
impotence of phials and pill-boxes? Down,
right down it comes, bearing its victim to
the floor, cudgelling the shoulders, thun
dering down the back, knocking down
against the short ribs, grinding along the
spine as if a big rasp was filiag away the
points of the back boue, bastinadoing the
feet, feruling the hands, and making all
parts tingle as if a pudding-stick of extra
power were renewing the coporai punish
ment of his schoolboy days. The whole
surface is soon excited to vigorous action,
every organis aroused, and all the fluids
of the system are set coursing like mad
through the capillaries into even the ut
termost corner of the little toe. The
morbid humors, beaten up in air their
lurking places, rush hither and yon to
escapethrough the pores, or burst forth
like lava in volcanic boiis.
After dressing, there is a walk to ba
taken, usually ihe longest of the day, to
expend the surplus strength derived from
this tonic of all tonics. In cold weather
you are impelled to pet your legs to the
very best speed. In summer, 'and espe
cially in such weather as we have now,
the sensation as you go out into the oven
like atmosphere is really droll. The sun
basks down upon you a3 if it mistook
you for a loaf of dough, and the hot
steam from the earth rises up on every
side. As you pass by the fields the mow
er lazily whets his scythe to excuse his
conscience from mowing; the cows lazily
I chew their cutis m the shade, and the wild
fl,ower3! vvsily droop their heads and
n noa llimr ovns oil thtnfra toll tl nfnt
close their eyes ; all things tell of heat
and extreme lassitude, yet you youiself
! are fresh, cool, witlioat perspiration, and
vigorous. The glistening atmosphere is
only a luxurious' hot air-bath, and you
stride along on the "four mile circuit,"
snuffing the clover-breath, as briskly as
one'who of a cool autumn morning
"Brushes with hasty steps the dew away
To meet ihe sun upon the upland lawn.
fcCr-One of the enormous charges a
gainst Gen. Irvin, for which, as Locofoco
prints would have it, the people ought to
reject him, is that he voted against re
funding Gen. Jackson's fine. Upon ex
amining the Extra Globe, first session of
the 28ih Congress, page 120, it will ba
found that Gen. Irvin voted in the affirma
tive on the question. This charge being
disposed of, what shall we have next.
Pom. Intelligencer.
The cappe.ras works of Mr. Craig, at
Wheeling, Va. were destroyed by fire on
1 Saturday night. At Pitts' u gh, t ic sama
I day the Mount Emmei House, owned by
Hugh Sweeny, was consiuic-i. Less,
e$093 insured for ;DO0O.- "
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