THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A Dill - MOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C.
TILE GLOBE.
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Wednesday, February 18, 1857:
To Delinquents !---Pay up.
All those indebted for the Globe, ad.ver
tising and job work, are requested to settle I
their accounts at the earliest moment conve
nient—at least between this time and the first
day. of April, 1857. This notice is particu
larly intended for those whose accounts have
been standing for two years and upwards.—
There are few, if any of these, who-could not
pay their accounts at a moment's notice, with
out any difficulty; and we hope they will not
wait for another asking. We, as a general
thing, are not in the habit of dunning, but
justice to others requires this to be done.—
We pay cash regularly to our operators, as
well as for type, paper, ink, and so on, and
cannot recognize as friends,`. those persons
Whoare so negligent as to leave their accounts
run- for several years, when they are abun
dantly able to pay. We like to do business
in a business way, and hope to be seconded
by our friends.
Money Registered, can be sent by mail at
our risk.
APPOINTMENT BY POST MASTER. GENERAL.
—Samuel Brooks to be Postmaster at Coal
wont, vice Dr. Moore, resigned. An excel
lent appointment.
,The Baltimore Patriot Says: "this city,
as is well known, is infested by. bands of bur
glars, pickpockets, and workers under the
new principle styled 'garroting.'"
Pennsylvania Legislature.
The Legislature is overrun with applica
tions for new Banks, and the Free Banking
project is again advocated by opposition mem
bers. The Senate have finally agreed to meet
the House in Convention, on the 17th of
March, for the purpose of electing a State
Treasurer. The bill for the sale of the pub
lic works, has not yet been acted upon.
A resolution has passed the Pennsyl
vania House of Representatives, authorizing
the Committee of Ways and Means to exam
ine into the propriety of, and if they deem it
expedient, insert an appropriation of $lO,OOO
in the appropriation bill, for the erection of
an Executive Mansion on the public grounds
in the borough of Harrisburg.
..The salary of the Governor of this
great State is 53,500 a year—just about a
good salary for a good clerk holding a re
sponsible position. If a Governor lives as
he should live, and extends the hospitality to
the people visiting the seat of government
he should and is expected to do, he will come
out of the office poorer than when he went
in. Five thousand a year would be little
enough.
A resolution has been read in the
House, for the temporary adjournment of the
Legislature, from the 27th inst., to the 9th of
March, for the purpose of giving members
an opportunity to attend the State Conven
tion, and the inauguration of James Buchan
an.
In less than a month, the Democratic can
date for Governor, will be known to all,—
Who the lucky man will be, we have no op.
portunity of knowing. Several good men
are named—with either of them, we intend
to go into the fight with a determination to
come out with nothing less than a victory in
"old Huntingdon."
APPOINTED.—CoI. John P. hoover, of Ven
ango, has been appointed Supervisor to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death of John
Gadd, Esq. Gen. R. C. McGill amain David
Black of this place, - were applicants for the
office. Better men cannot be found in the
State.
ArGIDEON ELIAS, Esq., of Tod township,
we learn will soon start for Kansas, where he
intends to locate as a Land Agent. F. 11.
LANt, Esq., of this place, will be associated
with him, and will give at any time all in
formation desired by persons wishing to pur
chase lands in Kansas. Mr. E. is known to
be a safe gentleman, and his capacity for se
lecting the best lands for those who may au
thorize him to do so, will not be questioned.
He will leave in March, and those who wish
to invest their money in that Territory should
see him before he leaves.
NEW STORES.—We learn that Mr. W. J.
GISINGER, of Marklesburg, will commence bu
shaess about the first of April, in. est Hun
tingdon, at the old stand formerly occupied
by Harrison & Couch, near the old Juniata
bridge. Mr. G. is a clever fellow, and we
ask for him a good run of patronage.
Mr. MosEs Simons, (everybody knows "Old
Mose") has, got his new building under roof.
It will be finished and occupied by " Old
Mose" about the first of April. It is in the
Square.
, Mr. D. P. Crwrx has been fixing up the old
stand of Col. Gwin, in a very handsome man
ner. It will be the handsomest store room
in town, and will be occupied by Mr. G. as
soon as ha receives his new spring goods and
completes some other very important arrange
ments.
DEATH or E. A. PENNIMAX.--001. E. A.
Penniman, formerly a member of the Legis
lature from Philadelphia, died in that city, on
Monday 9th inst., of cancer. lie was forty
seven years of age.
Something for the Thoughtful.
One of the most unpleasant features in, the
profession of a journalist is the task of point
ing out evils which exist in the community
in which he lives—yet this is among his du
ties as a citizen, and. cannot at all times be
avoided. Such being the case, we trust to be
excused for plainness of speech, on the score
of good intention.
To the observer of what is going on upon
the surface of our Huntingdon society, it
must be apparent that immorality is upon the
increase. Rowdyism stalks undisguised in
our midst. Street-fights, and drunken men
reeling to and fro, are no uncommon specta
cles. Violent language and ribald songs
vex the drowsy car of night."
All this seems a strange contradiction' to
reflecting persons, while the churches are
weekly adding to their numbers by the score.
But so it is ; we cannot escape the painful
evidences which present themselves before
our eyes, and. those of our wives and children,
day by day. If something effectual is, not
done to cheek the rising tide of dissipation
and sin, Huntingdon may yet stand along
side of the boroughs of Blair county in the
calendar of crime. This is not said as a joke.
We earnestly deprecate arriving at that issue.
Within the past week, the peaceful dwel
lers on our street have been awakened at
"the dead and witching hour of night" by
a volume of 'blasphemous oaths, followed by
an obscene chorus and exclamations too foul
to be heard in a. Christian land. On Friday
evening in particular, Battiti , seerned to be un
chained. There was a protracted and brutal
fight in a public place, and a crowd to wit
ness it. At a later hour, returning from a
neighbor's house, we stumbled over some
thing rolled like a log across the side-walk.
On stopping to examine, it proved to be an
insensate drunkard, who had. reeled to that
spot after a row, in which his body had re
ceived several hacks and bruises.
Now, we put it to the sober judgment or ,
our citizens--
--.----------" Shall such things-be,
And overcome us like a summer cloud,
And not excite our special wonder?"
There are hundreds of children whose ten
der minds are hourly in danger of being cor
rupted by these scenes of shame and out
breaking, wickedness; who are learning from
the coarse lips of reprobates, the language of
infamy. And shall we loiter without seeking
a remedy, Anti' the moral poison becomes in
grained in each young brain and heart?
And now comes up the pregnant inquiry,
who is to blame? Where do -minors and hab
itual drunkards get the whiskey? Are officers
negligent in the performance of their duty ?
If so, have they been properly sustained by
well-meaning citizens ? When a rowdy is
arrested, is not bail too readily forthcoming?
In short, has not the arm of the law been par
alyzed by the injudicious course of those very
men who are loudest in their complaints
against the authorities ?
We submit these queries to the tribunal of
the people ; and in common With many others
interested in the restoration of perfect order,
we hope for a prudent consideration of these
matters at the coming Spring election.
ATTEMPT TO STAB.—Benj. Flockler was se
verely cut in several places, with a knife in
the hands of an Irishman, on Friday night
last, in front of the Franklin House. The
Irishman was a wicked devil, and determined
on cutting somebody because nobody would
harbor him. Ben. tried to drive him from
the house, and in a scuffle got several severe
stabs, none of which, however, with care, will
prove mortal. The wounds were promptly
dressed by Dr. LUDEN, and the victim is do
ing well. The Irishman immediateiy took
to his heels, and has not been arrested.
M.The cause of Christianity is said to be
in a very progressive state in the Fegee is
lands, and. the efforts of the missionaries are
attended with the greatest success. Late ad
vices from there report that at the present
time there are over 30,000 of the natives un
der the teachings of Christianity.
There were Giants.
If any of our readers have had doubts as
to the existence of giants in former times, let
them read the following, and believe:
" A correspondent of the National (III.)
Emporium writing from Cleves, Ohio, says:
—A few days ago, while Wat Eckman and
Mike Shots were digging a well for James
Malson, Esq., near North Bend, Ohio, the
skeleton of a man, or rather of a giant, was
found, twenty-nine feet below the surface of
the earth—who, when living, towered to the
enormous height of twenty-three feet and ten
inches.
Prof. Lind, who ex mined the skeleton,
says:
"The os-humerous of the skeleton measured
six feet four and a half inches, and the supe
rior condyle, where it enters the glenoid cav
ity of the scapula, measured eighteen and
three-eights inches in diameter." Hence,
says the Doctor, " admitting the proposition
demonstrated by comparative anatomy, that
all muscular power depends on the magnitude
of the articulating condyles of the limbs to
which they are attached, we must arrive at
the startling fact, that this monster man while
in the full vigor of life, was twenty-three feet
and ten inches high, and was capable of
wielding the forearm with sufficient force to
have thrown a cannon ball weighing 18 lbs.
from Cincinnati to Indianapolis, or a distance
of 88 miles, or to have taken a large millstone
in each hand, and walked with perfect ease
at the astounding rate of thirty seven and one
eighth miles an hour."
Whar's Samson and Goliah of Gath now ?
oz., J. Kennedy Morehead, of Allegheny,
has been named by the opposition, as their
candidate for Governor. Wilmot is most
prominent among the Black Republican fac
tion of the opposition.
Let the President be free to- select his
.. own Advisers.
We take the following sensible 'remarks
on this subject from the Richmond Enquirer,
which,goes to show the feelings of the De
mocracy both North and South:
"It is unquestionably true that the Presi
dent elect ought to come into office absolute
ly untrammeled by party dictation, either
North and . South; and we shall be the last
to infringe in any wise upon his just and
clear prerogative. He has been declared to
be the President of the whole country, and
doubtless, be will enter in good faith upon
the discharge or the duties of his fositton,,
with a wise regard to the welfare of the
-whole country.
For ourselves, we should, prefer that, in
the selection of the Heads of Department,
the President shall be let alone to select his
own men. As he will be held responsible
for the conduct of the administration, into
whose hands soever the chief and subordi
nate offices may fall, it is but just that in the
choice of workmen he should be without
trammel or hindrance.
Of course we all have our preferences, and,
in Most eases, we dare say these - preferences
are based upon an accurate 'knowledge of
the men, and proper confidence in the fact.
that they will carry out the measures which
the electron of Mr. Buchanan was designed
to secure. But it will require no extraordi
nary charity to believe that others too, are
equally trustworthy, and equally competent
with our own, and will do as much to ad
vance the true welfare of the country, by
fearlessly adhering to the wise and whole
some features of bublic policy, the triumph
of which was secured by the recent election.
And whether Mr. Buchanan shall choose his
cola,borers from the North or the South,
from Virginia or New York, is and ought to
be a matter of small concern, if he shall
choose wise, worthy and faithful men. He
will do this, let croakers say what they may.
If no higher motive prompted it, a polite re
gard for-the success of his administration
will ensure such a course. We have no
fears, then, that the chief offices will fall into
the hands of unworthy men, or that we shall
have any need for crirnination or complaint
when the names of the chosen ones are an
nounced.
We have again and again set forth in sub
stance what we now say, and are determin
ed, let the President do as he may in the se
lection of a Cabinet, to defend whatever of
wisdom there shall be found in his policy at
home or abroad. Were Mr. Buchanan an
unknown man, there might possibly be score
occasion for anxiety as to his men and meas
ures ; but with a veteran , officer, so able and
so distinguished, at the helm, who can doubt,
that even in this present crisis, he will guide
us safely and surely through the perils that
may encompass our course ?"
Upon the same subject the Philadelphia
Evening Argus remarks :
"Nearly every paper we take up, it mat
ters not how obscure, has some one to recom
mend to the President elect as a proper per
son to fill a position in his Cabinet. Some
go 130 far as to intimate that the country will
not be safe unless their favorite is chosen.
This is all folly, let the President be free to
make his own selections, he alone is respon
sible for the success or failure' of his admin
istration. We have our preferences. There
are men whom we admire and think would
adorn Cabinet positions, and whose services
would be a great benefit and redound to the
honor of the country; but we yield to the su
perior judgment of the President elect, know
ing that the responsibility of selecting proper
advisers rests alone with him, and believing
he will do all for the best. We have ever
supported Democratic principles and defend
ed all the administrations of our party, both
State and National, because our heart and
judgment prompted us to do so, and it mat
ters not who James Buchanan selects for his
Cabinet, his past course justifies ns in say
ing we shall heartily sustain his administra
tion."
TUE MURDER OF Da. BURDELL--CORONFR I S
VERDICT.—The Coroner's investigation in
this appalling tragedy came to a close on
Saturday night, at 11 o'clock. Snodgrass
was identified by two women as the person
who had purchased a dagger on Tuesday or
Wednesday preceding the murder. On being
re-examined, he positively denied the charge.
The Coroner, after delivering his charge to
the jury, said that he would examine another
witness .who had just arrived, after which
the investigation was brought to a conclu
sion. The Coroner then introduced D. C.
Walter, who, being affirmed, said
I live at No. 90 Iloratio street ; I was pass
ing along Bond Street, on the night of Fri
day, the 30th of January last, at about a
quartet before eleven o'clock ; I saw - a man
sitting on the steps of this house, No. 31; he
was apparently at work at his shoes.
While he was thus engaged, Ime the door
of the houseopened—a man put his head out,
and said to the person sitting on the steps
"What are you doing there ?" I "saw the
man who was sitting on the step leave it.
noticed this fact and went nn.
The Jury then retired to consider the ver
dict.
TILE VERDICT.
NEW YORK, 11 O'clock, P. M.—The Coro
ner's Jury have just come•in. They find as
follows:
First—That the deceased, Dr. Harvey
I3urdell, was found dead at his house, No.
31 Bond street; on the morning of the 3lst
of January, 1857.
Second—That his death was caused, on
the night of January 30th, by numerous
wounds from some sharp instrument.
Third—That the Jury find that Dr. Har
vey Burden was murdered by Mrs. Augusta
Cunningham
Cunningham and John J. Eckel, as princi
pals. • •
Fourth—That George Vail Snodgrass was
accessary before the act.
Fifth—That Miss Augusta Cunningham
and Miss Helen Cunningham are persons
having a knowledge of the facts, and conceal
ing their knowledge of them.
GIRLS AND REARDS.-TwO young misses,
discussing the qualities of some young gen
tlemen, were overheard thus.
No. 1.---" Well, I like Billy, but he's
rather girlish ; he hasn't got the least bit of a
beard."
No. "I say Billy has got a beard, but he
shaves it off?'
No. I—No he aint either, any more than
I have."
N0.2--I say he has too, and. I know it,
for it Aides my cheek."
From the Daily Argue
The Woolly Heads.
Black Republicanism has hadits day, like
the dog.spoken of in Siaakspeare. - But this
was a mad dog; and ; although it was stoned
and fired upon without mercy ; et we did not
succeed in killing it before a great many oth
ers were bitten, and the virus became dissem
inated in many populous districtSlif.the coun
try. The Beechers, the Porkers, the Reyes
end gentleman in Boston, (weforget his name, )
who ran away with his neighbor's wife; and
philosopher Greeley, arc all rabid. And,
what is most extraordinary, this peculiar spe
cies of negrophobia exhibits among its prom
inent developments a most libidinous infatu
ation. All- the Free-love disciples, male and
female, are Abolitionists. The Reverend
gentleman; now occupying the attention of
the Boston press, and who, making a tempo
rary lecturing excursion of profit and pleas
ure, and leaving, his wife and children at
home, was accompanied by the wife of his
neighbor, something younger .a;nd handsomer
than his own, is a decided Fremont Black
Republican Abolitionist. He was one of the
rabid preachers who made political diatribes
in the pulpit, having displayed on the wall
behind him a map of 'the, United States, with
all the Southern members of the Confedera
cy blotted out with ink, while Kansas was
strongly incarnadined. In every instance,
the three thousand political parsons, when
holding forth to their Black Republican con
gregations, had a certain number of women
clustering around the pulpit, who smiled and
encouraged them, and who seemed to say,
"when we obtain our rights, we'll- play the
deuce-with - the laws, and put an end to the
reign of the mulatto wenches!" And why
should they not be there as well as in the up
per tiers of the theatre? They had the sanc
tion of the preachers for what they did, or
whatever they had an inclination to do ; and
if their spiritual teachers were capable of
leading them into out-of-the way places, how
could they do otherwise than follow? Per
haps the monomanical political economists
may be an exception to the rule. The fact
of propagation would be too consistent a de
monstration for the establishment of their
characteristic decrepitudes.
But rabid Black Rehublicanism has other
symptomatic atrocities. It has an aversion
for Constitutions, as the mad dog has for wa
ter, and is pre-disposed to rend the Union in
fragments. We never could conceive how
some of our wealthiest citizens, who love their
money bags, could manifest any sympathy
for such a crazy, desperate and dangerous
faction of malignants. The triumph of such
a party would afford the same security, as
turning loose in our streets some 7,000 mad
dogs—that being the Fremont vote of the city.
The Constitution of the United States once
violated—and that was precisely the purpose
of the Fremont party, if we are to credit the
opinion of the Supreme Judges, whose prov
ince it is to decide what is constitutional—of
course everysubordinate legal restraint would
instantly cease to exist. Then what would
become of the money bags of the hundred
millionaires who united in the invitation to
Mr. Speaker Banks to address them on the
Free Soil hydrophobic paroxisms of Fremont- I
ism. How much in the dollar would their
railroad securities bring? Or their bank
stocks, their scrip, their "paper" discounted
at one per cent per month ? Or on the esti
mate value of their real estate? If they as
sist in unchaining the devil, they must be
prepared to entertain his majesty. And we
have the best authority for knowing that he
has use for an unlimited amount of wealth,
power and dominion. To be able to tempt
the many, he would be under the necessity
of levying on the resources of the few. And
it might not be difficult for him to persuade
a multitude of poor men, that their condition
would be improved by pillaging a few scores
of millionaires.
This -would be contrary to law. But all
laws are subordinate to, and based upon the
Constitution, which these millionaires were
persuaded. to destroy. Having escaped this
woolly headed danger, they should study the
French Revolution. Or if they are deter
mined to persist in the temararious experi
ment of the few against - the many, the rich
ao-ainst the poor, usurpation against the Con
stitution, of course the devil himself could
have no motive for arresting them on their
journey to destruction. They -have escaped
once; and we doubt if they will be impatient
to plunge into new- perils. They have rea
son to thank Heaven and the Democracy that
the Constitution has withstood the metal of
their batteries, else ere this the devil would
have had them all. Surely they could not
have been aware that the funds theycontrib
uted were to be expended in the purchase of
ammunition to blow open their own vaults,
and shatter the walls of their own mansions.
Nothing but a profuse expenditure of their
money could have kept so many Free Soil pa
pers in motion in a city numbering only 7000
Black Republican voters against 63,000 Con
stitutionalists., And do they not still give
aid and comfort to the enemy?
The Democracy of the South, .as well as
the -North, merely contend . that the territo
ries belong to all the States in common.—
They insist on the exercise of their constitu
tional right to remove into them with their
families and their property. They care not
how many Northern emigrants become their
neighbors, nor what description of property
they bring with them, so they do not steal
their negroes. But the rabid Emigrant Aid
Greeleyites, declare that the territories belong
to "freedom," and the _slave owner must be
utterly excluded. They say, moreover, that
it is degrading to white labor to permit ne
groes to - work in an adjoining field. A strange
doctrine for Abolitionists, the frantic
of human equality, without regard to
color! If the negroes were all emancipated,
and sent to the North, what would become of
them if not allowed to labor in the vicinity
of white philanthropists? It is madness—it
is woolly-headed madness!
- Erie City Bank.
This bank, as every body knows, is now
in a state of suspension—that is, it is closed
for the present against all demands. We
presume, that every thing tending to throw
light upon its condition will be interesting to
those who are so unfortunate as to have their
pockets full of its notes. A communication
in the last Brie Observer, gives the following
information The stockholders met on the
4th inst. and to them the committee made an
interesting report, from which it appears
that the assets are $387,934 29, and its lia
bilities $294,586 83 ; leaving a balance in
favor of the bank of $93,347 46. This looks
pretty well on paper,. but truth compels us
to say that implicit confidence cannot be
placed in such reports. Not long since the
Lancaster Bank made a pretty fair statement
and intimated that business would be resum
ed—•but it has recently made an assignment
—so that bubble has burst. The Erie Bank
may do the same, and we shall therefore
only state facts, without offering advice, to
note holders. Since the suspension---so says
the report=" the debt of the bank to bill
holders has• been reduced $105,380 by the rd=
ceipt of its own notes on debts due the
bank," and the stockholders have "instruct
ed' the , directors to collect the amount
„out
standing on the stock, amounting to *5O,-
000." The correspondent of the Observer
thinks that by adopting a course of forbear
ance, and allowing, the board to conduct
their affairs in their own way, none can be
injured and many, may, be benefitted. This
may or may not be so. In our opinion the
wisest course for the note holders to pursue
is to turn their paper into money as soon as
they can.—Harrisburg Patriot & Union.
STATE LVNATIC .A.SYLUIVI
Report of Superintendent,
To the Trustees of tlte,Pennsylvania State Lu
natic Hospital: • •
GENTLEMEN:—In obedience to the require
ment of the by-laws, the sixth annual report
of the operations of the Hospital is herewith
respectfully presented.
The number of patients in the Hospital on
the 31st of Deceinber, 1855, was two hundred
and fifty—on e hundred and thirty-eight males,
and one hundred and twelve females.
The number admitted during the • year, was
one hundred and • twenty-nine—seventy-four
males and fifty-five females; so that the num
ber under treatment in the course of the year
was three hundred and seventy-nine.
The number discharged dump; • the year
1856, was one hundred and forty-six—eighty
two males and sixty-four females; leaving in
the Hospital, on the 31st of December, 1856,
two hundred and thirty-three patients—males,-
one hundred and thirty ; females, one hun
dred and three.
It will be seen from this, statement that the
number of admissions has been less, and the
number of discharges greater, than during
the previous year. The opening of the Wes
tern Pennsylvania hospital for the insane,
during the spring, for the reception of pa
tients, offered to the residents of the western
and south-western parts of the State accom
modations more convenient, and involving
much less difficulty and expense in traveling,
consequently a large number who would oth
erwise have been sent to this Hospital were
taken to that. In addition to this, all the pa
tients supported here by the county of Alle
gheny, were removed, towards the close of
the year, to that institution.
Of those discharged the number of restored was
Improved .
Stationary
Died
The cause of death in sixteen cases was
the exhaustion of chronic mania; in nine ca
ses, dysentery; in one case, suicide; in two
cases, inflammation of the lungs; in one case,
chronic bronchitis; in two cases, erysipelas
following.violent inflammation of the throat;
and in one case, acute mania.
Among the deaths marked as caused by
chronic mania, was one which presented such
striking features in a medical point of view,
that a more extended notice appears to be de
manded.
The patient was a female, aged. about fifty
three years, a widow, who had been. a resi
dent of the Hospital nearly three years. Of
her previous history, and the length of time
her mind had been deranged, no definite in
formation could ever be obtained. On the
day of her admission, a peculiar bronzed ap
pearance of the skin was noticed, and though
frequently asked by her to explain the rea
son of "her becoming so much like a mulat
to," I was unable to assign any cause satis
factory to my own mind. After her death,
my attention was called to the cases describ
ed by Dr. Addison, of London, as disease of
the supra-renal capsules, and her ease.corres
ponded in .all' essential respects with those
described by him. The skin of the face and
hands, particularly, was of a deep coppery
brown; her body inclined to emaciation ; her
appetite very delicate but the bodily func
tions were generally regular. Her constant
complaint was her great weakness; but nei
ther tonics nor malt liquors, which she was
constantly craving, seemed to have any ben
eficial influence. She gradually failed with
out any other disease, and circumstances
prevented a post-mortem examination, which
would probably have thrown some light on
the obscurity of the case.
During the early part of the year, our
household enjoyed an unusual degree of health;
but ou the Ist of July an epidemic of dysen
tery, which prevailed extensively in the neigh
borhood, made its appearance, and continued
for six weeks, when it disappeared almost as
suddenly as it had appeared. Though so ex
tensively as to include nearly one-third of
our whole household, the mortality was com
paratively small. Eighty-four patients, and
fourteen officers and attendants were attack
ed, and nine patients and one attendant died;
nearly.all the patients who died having suf
fered from mental derangement _ for a long
-period. Many of the cases were-severe and
very protracted, and in several cases death
was clearly to be attributed to our inability
to keep up a systematic medication, from the
obstinate refusal of the . patient.. to take the
means prescribed.
During the last quarter of the year, anoth
er epidemic extended from the community
around us to our household, and presented
many cases of an anomalous character.—
Commencing as a violent inflammation of the
fauces, in several cases it extended so as to
include all the glands of the throat and mouth,
with the tongue , so as entirely to prevent ar
ticulation, and even deglutition, but gradu
ally subsiding in the course of a few days;
in others, as the violence of the inflammation
of the fauces abated, erysipelas of the face
appeared, involving' the whole head; and in
others, again, the affection was confined en
tirely to the fauces, and was quite obstinate.
During the same period, a disposition to the
formation of large, very painful boils on ev
ery part of the body, very tedious in their
course and in healing, prevailed very . 'gener
ally.
The causes of insanity, so far as they could
be ascertained, arc given in the following ta
ble:
Males. Females. Total
111 health 32 36 68
Domestic trouble 35 60 9.5
Oriel 3 3
Millerisni 1 3 4
Spiritual rappings 1
Excessive study...., 2 1 3
Disappointment—, 3... 3
Over exertion 7 1 8
Epilepsy 18 8 26
Fright 1 .5 6
Intemperance 22 1 23
Religious excitement 4 2 6
Puerperal 22 29
Opium eating 1 1 ' 2
Loss of sleep 2 1 ' 3
DISGIRO of the brain. , 7 1 8
Allure in business 22
Anxiety a 'i 4
Disordered menstruation 23 23
Injury of tho bead 7 2
9
Loss of money 22
...
111 treatment 1 1 2
Masturbation 28 1 29
E1C06803 10 ... 10
Novel rending
Exposure to the sun
Unknown
In enumerating the' causes of insanity,. I
cannot refrain mentioning one which is much
more productive of insanity than would ap
pear by reference to the tables generally giv
en.
I allude to the practice of a solitary vice
by the young.of both sexes, which, as is too
well -known to those who are constantly
brought in contact with its victims, prevails
to an alarmingly fearful extent in the com
munity. It is not probable that - 'ire is more
prevalent at this time than 'in previous years,
but the facts and the cases have been brought
more distinctly under notice. Its extensive
prevalence as an effect of insanity—and it is,
impossible to say 'to what extent it may have
been the cause—every one connected with
the management of' hospitals has had too fre
quent occasion to deplore; but the same op
portunity has not been offered them of rais
ing a warning voice against the habit, before
it has become confirmed,' and its deleterious
influence has -been manifested. In yielding
to this, as to all other bad . habits, the indi
vidual cherishes the fond, but fatal.dclusion,
that he will escape all the evil effects which
are forcibly represented as following this
practice; but there is .no fact more' certain,
and verified by more convincing proofs, than
that Unless the habit is at once and finally
abandoned, insanity or some serious disorder
of the nervous system will follow. It may
safely be affirmed, without fear of contradic
tion, that nothing undermines the nervous
system more insidiously, but more certainly;
and it is also painfully true, that in no class
of cases is the prospect of 'restoration so un
favorable.
The reason of this is evident. The habit
has become so confirmed by the time symp
toms of insanity have appeared, that the in
dividual seems unable to make any effort to
break it off; added to which, is the fact that
the controlling power of the mind has been
so weakened, that the resolution and deter
mination to pursue a correct course seem no
longer to actuate the individual.
The social condition may be thus classed:
Females. Total
-154 147 301
22 38 60
273 121 304
Married
Widowed ...
Single
449 300 755
The accompanying table shows the age at
which the insanity was first developed:
Males. Females. Total.
5
..
6 11
53 39 92
112 76 188
134 88 222
85 62 147
, 40 29
15 4 19
..5 2 7
Under 10 years of ago
Between 10 and 20
" 30
D0...30 " 40
D0...40 " 50
D0...50 " 60
D0...60 " 70
D0...70 " SO
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A PENNSrLVANIA DETTCTIMAIST WHO WANTED
TO BE liuxu.--An evening or two ago, a large
sl ab-s ided ,robu st looking Pennsylvania Dutch
man, entered the restaurant of Mr. Archi
bald Barron, on Second street near Willow,
on a begging expedition. There were about
a dozen persons sitting around the place, and
the stranger approaching them, addressed
one of the party as follows:
"Me wants a feep for mins ped to sleep
in?"
"Look here, old fellow," responded one ef
the men, "what kind of a Dutchman are you,
a real Simon pure, or Pennsylvania ?" .
"I ish a Pennsylvania Dutchman, I comes
from mine blase, where I lifs mit mine vifo,
de oder side of Susquehanna, where I life
mit mine children too."
"Well then," said the proprietor, who can
crack a joke as well as any body, "you ought
to be hung. You fellows up in the country
charge twice as much for butter, eggs and
poultry as they are worth; now clear out or
I'll hang you.
"You may hang me and pe tam, if you
shoost do it now."
"Well, come along," said the proprietor,
"and I'll give you a free passport to the other
side of Jordan."
The crowd by this time were prepared to
see a star engagement done up in a first class
style, and the worthy landlord procured a
chain, formerly used to fasten a black bear.
Ile put one end through the ring on the oth
er end of the chain and then placed the
noose, thus formed, over the head and around
the neck of the Dutchman. -
Of course there was not the least intention
of hanging the fellow, but merely to crack a
joke. So interesting had the scene become
by this time, that several persons indulging
in the luxury of chicken salad and broiled
oysters, served up in excellent style, for which
the worthy host is so justly celebrated, drop
ped their knives and forks temporarily, in or
der to enjoy the sport. Dutehy was led to
the rear part of the restaurant, and the loose
end of the chain was fixed on a hook in the
ceiling. After standing in this position a
moment, he let himself fall, the chain tight
ened around his neck, and as the links gra
ted through the ring, a sudden sharp crack
was heard. "Heavens," exclaimed the land
lord, "the fellow has broke his neck." "Take
him down, take him down"—shouted several;
but all seemed to have lost their presence of
mind for the Moment, and poor Dutch) , - was',
to all appearances, in a fair way of making
a transit from time to eternity, in a very ex
peditious style.. There he was, histongue
banging out, his limbs becoming rigid,- and
his pedal extremities twitching about. ,1 - I.e
was, however, relieved from his-perilous po
sition, but he appeared to be about half dead.
The landlord flew about on the wings of
fright, - got a large tumbler, filled it with the
best brandy, applied the same as a lotion, but
no sooner did the fumes affect the olfactory
nerves of the apparently prostrate fellow,
- than he gave unmistakable signs of return
ing animation by taking a long breath. In
a moment after he raised his hands, seized
the tumbler, and bathed- his insides with
about two-thirds of its contents: His speech
returned—"dat ish gout, datisla nice ; it makes
mine pelly feels petter as - goot," exclaimed
he, as he arose to his feet without further
help.
Of course the speetatorS were agreeably
surprised, and none more so, or better pleas
ed, than the distinguished landlord himself.
The latter person remarked that for the mo
ment he could see police officers, coarts,jp
ries, prison bars and gallows, staring'him in
the face. To use his own words, he thought
he was a "goner!' The best of the story is
that the Tuetortic son of Pennsylvania was
playing possum, to a very t eonsiderable ex
tent, and remarked, that he would often come
and be hung every time, provided he should
be restored in the same manner, He then
took his departure, leaving the crowd in the
cellar to talk about the adventure of the even
ing.—Phila. Daily Argus.
Ite. We learn that the dam at Newton
Hamilton, has been swept away, also, a part
of Raystown Branch dam,
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