Mistakes of Physicians
Oliver IV. liolmeit, (physician, philoso
aier nnil poet.) in a lecture upon physicians,
thii account of some mhtakes
have been made in medicine:
I ":',,ner or later, everybody L; tcinpH up
'orming a diagnosis. I saW Velpliau tie one
tho carotid arteries fos N. sepi)osed aneur
-m, which was only It littili harmless tumor,
,ad Itids W/4 patient. Mr. Deuce, of Dub
wz.s ,nore ibrtunute in a case he boldly
''relate." or, abscess, while others thought it
;,a ane trism. Ile thrust his lancet into it,
!;.d proved himself in the right. SJon after
he made a similar diagnosis. He thrust in
ha lances as before, and out gushed the pa
tient'', b',10,1 and his life with it. The next
morning Mr. DeaSC was found dead and
iloatin.g. in his own blood. lie had divided
ihe femoral artery.
••I I :tie doomed people; end seen others
doom them, over and over again, upon the
strength of physical signs, and they have
lived in the most contumacious and scientif
iii d y uniustitioblo !minter Os long as they
liked, and sumo of theta are ;till living. 1
,'c two Men in the street very often, who
‘-ere b,th as good as dead in the opinion of
:di who s' them. in their extremity. Peo
ple 191 insist on living, sometimes, though
manifestly Moribund. In Dr. Elder's Life
nf K•me flail a case of this sort, told
11 Dr. Kane himself. The captain of a ship
Avas dying of scurvy, but the crew mutinied,
and lie c up dying for the present to at
!cod to them. An old lady in this city, near
her end, got a little sexed about a proposed
change in her will, made up her mind not
rbon, ordered a coach. was driven
of a relative, and 11:ed, four
p.m, longer. Cotton Miller tilts snug
1 -torie- which Ito up in hi, ex
-1• •cierme. or out of hi., showing the
pregno.is. Simon
i..ne was shot itt nine Mace-, and he I;iy
f.r dead. the Italian-4 made two hacks with
ti hat. het to cut off Ins head. lln got well.
or. and we-ti lusty n r in Ciamn
time. Jabev Ar.m.groie was ,11.. t
V. 01 . 0, 1.11:r2t thot went hi at I.i: ear and
.•tart out hk eye on the other side. A
mple of bullets went thrmigh hi- 1•..1y
-la:,z got well, li.cwever, a•nl mal.y
y,• ars , Per contra, erarking
plum-tune with his teeth, broke a tomb
add be-t his life. We hare seen a physi
cian dying,. like. Zplgelins, from a scratch:
earl a rasa NVIIU 11.11 't crowbar shot through
his head k :Juke and wr.ll. These extreme
7:3 , 11111F4. But 3 -or! can never be
tuocantiouQ in 2.-uur rrogno=i , , in tht , view
Or the gre..t tinecrtaint:) - the euersc of any
d'ica,e nut lung wrdelied, and the mangy un
expected turns it may tako."
01 WIII•1:V.—A eitizen of St. Paul
firni•lles sonic pretty hard papers on his
fellow sinners who trade 1N ith the north-
vi,iiitern Indian.. Ile says a barrel of the
' pal Cincinnati," (?) men after it has run
the gaumlet of railroad and lake travel is a!
sufficient basis unon which to manufacture
one hundred barrels of "good Indian liquor:"
Ile says a small bus:kotfal of the Cincinnati
article is poured into a washtub almost full
of rain water; a large quantityof "dog-leg"
and rod pepper is then thrown into the tub;
a bitter species of root, common in "land of
lhaeotah," is then cut up and added; burnt
sugar or some such article is used to restore
something like the original color of the
whisky. The compound has to lie kept on
hand a few days before it is fit for ace. It
is administered to the aborigines ad libihint.
Ile says all en Indian wants is something
that will "bite!" and it matters not whether
•pepper, ruin or tobacco; that he will
giNe forty acres of land fur one dose. He
says some of 3)20 speculators, when they
wish to bargain,' have only to
:Amino:du. this Hinootait rreparation to the
Chippewss simultaneously and
they all start at once fir their NNar clubs
and tomahawk-, and proceed to cleave each
other's brains out.
A S \ mi. ON STEAM ENGlvrg AND
Nl , ;(;Ens.— . 3.loFsrs. Phillips, Sampson & Co.,
, 73 -s the ihiston Journal, have received the
hdlewing letter from one of the subscribers
to tlantie mthly, in Lluit.iana. The
tnonhcy e:;l . 2.lrituent is decidedly rich:
"—, Jane
7%-rion d• Cu
“Contlemen:
he.tded 'What
v,2 0 , 0 ; ' win.; to ma in the laFt nu ii of
2,,,ur ut Lgai.ine, the writer thinks that the
!alien' inn for niggors is to be brought about
stem, on the ground that a blndidi of
coal fed to a steam engin will produce more
lower than a bushel of Injun corn fed to a
nigyer. 'arid that the great imprmement that
fake! Cp , e iu there engine in .30 or lit)
ears will eo:th:e to to rk.avigate our cony
dls. and plow a , much eetton, with one
in the same length of
exp.m.e, than I.ith ten
teat;:. we will free the nig-
REIM
lIIM
g.-r 4 n: .t n.r a,nl tal,- tie en:;:n in-
.44 , 11 Nfl{% . j. st Zr:Vittl:at Vh.lat • :- ny ,
o.rtit inby, by , 4:^:n <liould turn out true
Cut run ck,01.1 he grow•d in thi,
2,ost want to a , k him one vestioo —When
;r row.: to pit•kiu c•at, mlior is his ~team
then? it takes fiugers to dal this sort
antln , ) sloetn cu; :n 71/1 ever be
!.la,b , to irike a liek like thew. If weever
you winch I won't deny
1. Inn-, we'l turn our Diggers into
11, , inure cuttan and cell at a lest
MS
-..lmt might be called n specu
t-l• rube: wL live; not fir
hc'J make nn im-
MEE
int,nkeys
, 11.1 bn the I(Ty artlele. One monk-v
pkk :omit as a
bigger c , .uhl ce.,:.rsoe 10 monkeys.
munkn)s was g-t and the trial
maid: thr nt.ly .Lout it Wl 7 , in lead
ore 1:1 OlIke:s. it turd:. '
lU flig'4.,rl4 to mana,4e ~ re monkey: so he I
giv up expeerimentlo and sticks to the
old vroy of of gatherin hi•er:p. Some nne
..n.vs that curry man is ern..y on some sub
h.'-. Your man is crasy on s'reera, but it
nit exactly the rilizt sort to cicratc
hire to fire t.p and try
c:rcuse roe for saying that I think
some of yonr articles is rather too hifalutin
I.a alwlishen subjects.
"Respectfully. A iSB.CatDER.
"P. S.—loll your 1 reakfast-M.lle man to
fro or rm."
''', , lji , CDlumbia go!,':
1 PENNSYLVANIA :NDEPESPENT JOURNAL.
COLUMBIA. 1.. i.
SATURDAY, JULY ,24, 1858
rta..We aro happy to state
,that there is
every probability that Mr. Nichols will re
tain his position as Principal of the Wash
ington Institute. At a meeting of the
board of trugees tt Was resolved not to ac
cept the resignation of Mr. N., and we pre
sume that gentleman will return to his post
at the opening of the neat session.
MAD Doc.—On Thursday last, a large dog
belonging to Mr. Isaac l'usev, was pursued
into town by several farmers of the neigh
borhood and shut. It is asserted that the
animal was mad and had bitten several dogs
in the country and a number of others while
being hunted through the streets of the bor
ough. We trust that the alarm may have
been a false one, and the unfortunate brute
a sacrifice, like so many other 3 during the
reign of the Dug Star, to the unfounded fear
of "mad dog!" Nevertheless, we shall not
be sorry to record as a Consequence of the
excitement, whether justifiable or baseless,
the general muzzling or chaining of the
countless curs which infest our town to no
good. We by no means advocate the re
opening of last season's sanguinary cam
paign—at least we deprecate the public
daughter of the victims—but should the
decree go forth of "death to the dor,e"tvith
a pro \ iso for its execution ih a manner
which shall as little as possible outrage the
tender feelings of the public, w•e will bless
Chief Burgess, Town Council and executive
oiticers for ridding our streets and alleys of
a nuisance which has growl to be well nigh
intolerable.
Tnt NCE ON ME PENNA. R. R.—On
Mon.lay last, the alteration of the track in
Mat kot street, Philadelphia, having, been
completed. the broad gouge cars of the P.
It. R. 'e ere run over the entire length of the
r t uol between Philadelirhia and Pittsburg.
Ry this arrangement no change of cars be
tw, on tl,e termini of the road is necessary,
and the sawn conductor has charge of the
tiain thron,i;,h the entire route. Several of
the oil conduetm s of passenger trains have
this ne,.essarily been thrown out of employ
ment, and among them Mr. Wm. Delaney
and Mr. George liambright. We arc sorry
to lose both these gentlemen, whose uniform
courtesy to passengers has rendered them
favorites with the traveling community.
Tire. C nAIN CROP.—The harve-.t in this
vicinity with the exception of getting in the
oats, is over. and has been
_generally very
favorable as regards fine weather. The
crops of grain are large, but we arc in
formed that the field WPC\ it have consider
ably damaged the white wheat, reducing
the yield below tire average. The red
wheat is untouched.
LODGE'S OALLEEY.-Mr. Samuel Lodge
has made arrangements by which he is en
abled to take, in addition to his superior
Daguerreotype likenesses, Ambrotypes of
the first order of excllence. We have ex
amined specimens of his art and can pro
nounce them equal in merit to any we have
ever seen. With this inerea , •e of facilities
for accommodatin the public Mr. 1.a4,e
should command a liberal patronage. His
rooms are at the N. E. Corner of Front and
Locust streets.
HoustmoLD Wonns. , —Housthold Words,
from Jansen & Co., New York, is always
recei‘ed and lead with pleasure. We haN e
said much in favor of this periodical, and
could our good word influence to the extent
of our good will we would add to its list of
subscribers a thousand-fold. It is tl , e very
matter for warm weather reading; light,
without being trifling; solid, without being
leaden. It combines in happiest proportion
thoughts fur food and feud for thought.
ATLANTIC MONTIII.T.—The Atlantic keeps
steadily on. winning the approbation and
support of the reading community. It is
strung in its corps of contributors and ably
handled by its editor. We have found
fewer stupid articles in its pages than in
thu , e of any periodical ever before published
in this cooutry, and in it during its brief
career, has been gi% en to the world sonic of
the most readable and sparkling papers of
theday. The August number fully sustains
the reputation of the Monthly.
r. 11i1SN ' S HUMS: GAZI.I7i:,—TiIIS%.IA the
title ur a new candidata for public support
and favor, to be published monthly in Phil
adelphia, by J. W. Biadley,and edited by -
John Prot, L. L. P. The first number ap
pears in the form' 6f neat quarto, taste
fully gotten up and contaiiiiug much good
ori4inal and selected matter. We bespeak
n favorable reception for the new paper,
wai h, under'its able editor must prate a
alunble addition to the literature of the
day. We a:e glad to find Mr. Frost in the
editorial chair, a position which no man in
Philadelphia is more competent to fill, not
only creditably but with di•tinctiun.
A RTlll•lt's HOME M tr.; zr:c.—The Au mst
number of this family :Magazine is fully
equal to its rival. in ill° same line. 3t
readable and contain:. much information
concerning ladies' work and honqehold mat
ters will be found not only interest
but. of vAltte.
D or Wx. T. PORTEIL—Wc regret to
notice the Leath 51;11;9 , r, ,, ntlentan, so well
known n 9 the editor of the .qpirt (!f 17
rmet and Porter's Siirit. lie died in New
1 -, Jik. on Mondav In9t.
A lirlftnr THAT CCRE9.—WII , 2II Suirering
from any disease of the thront cr lungs, rest
assured that speedy relief may he obtained
by using Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wil4f
ry. Its success in such cases is unparailnled.
pnentrEttot:s.—Some wag, writing fro=
Cairn, 111., since the subbiding; of the flood,
says there are now in that city 4 distinct
and different smells, and scrcra7 wards yet to
hear from:
Police Iteths
REI7OIITED BY OUR SPECIAL "MOUCIIARD."
Mirto.krEn Iloitu•ttix.—On Frlday, 16th
inst., Wm. Wagner appeared before Esquire
Weloh and under high-pressure excitement
made complaint against Wm. E. Krater, of
Marietta, for slaying (partially) Richard
Campbell with a stone. -It was the opinion
of informant that unl6s a warrant vas
speedily issued the blow would prove in
stantly fatal. Under these circumstances
Deputy Constable Derrick was empowered
to take the body—not the dead body—of
Krater, and produce him to answer the
charge of Homicide. The warrant was
served and defendant appeared on Monday
morning, at which time also came the de
funct, with a huge plaster on his head and
the fumes of an old drunk spinning inside,
ready and willing to te,tify to the manner
of his taking off.
The parties are naiggatc:rs of the savory
and odorous ditch which suprdi'_ts so liV;:h.al
a proportion of cui• daily be::crage, and were
with their respective vessels, under full sail
towards "Saints' Rest," vulgarly known as
Marietta, when the little unpleasantness be
tween them occurred. The dispute was one
of right of way, Krater's boat having run
aground and Campbell, in endeavoring to
pass with his own craft, getting it foul of
the other vessel. The snarl led to an inter
change of civilities between deceased arid
K's hands, one of whom was about "sailing,
in" when Capt. Kratcr arrived front the
front where he had been in charge of the
motive power,-and dissuaded his belicose
subordinate from hostilities. Campbell,
who had considerable loose whiskey "Aosh
in"round" in him, was intolerably abusive,
and immediately turned the of flow his of
fensive eloquence upon the peacemaker,
"reading his pedigree" and keel-hauling
him after the most approved bilge-water
style. His choice selection of canal compli
ments was more than Krater's good humor
and philosophy would bear, so, to stop his
talk, Capt. K. knocked him on the head
with a stone. The remedy was effectual.
Abundant evidence tree produced, c,tab-
Reuling defendant's charactor as :to indus
trious. orderly and peaceable citizen, while
the late Carol:tall, even in face of lids sud
den and lamented decease un•ler circumstan
ces, according to all ra-ccedent, naturally
calculated to e;tablish his reputation as a
saint, was proven non:riot:AT quarrelsome
and abusit e, especially when in rye.
The mgistrate, in view of the virulent
blackguarding lavished by Capt. Campbell
upon defendant, adjudged the former guilty
of profanity- and "conduct unbecoming an
officer atol a gentleman," but in considera
tion of his late death and the price of the
plaster which decorated his cranial (level
opement, let him off with a reprimand.—
The charge, of Homicide against Capt. Kra
01or was dismissed, tile killing lining dermsd
justifiable, but, as somebody had to pay the
costs, the Justice decided that the luxury
of "plugging" with a stone so enticing a
mark as Camidiell's head, Was worth the
And Capt. K. bled for the amount.
1110110 j
WOULDN'T STAY MA N 1 ,311 ED.—On Monday,
10th inst., that naughty young woman,
EVanna. Melissa Kuhn, banished fn• life to
the penal settlement of Lancaster, by ;Jus
tice Welsh, on the llth inst., as recorded in
the I,st number of these veracious chroni
cles, was brought before the Fame magis
trate by High Constable Derrick, having
been discovered by this vigilant and efficient
ollicer cruising within the tabooed borough
limits.
The 'demoiselle appeared with less reluc
tance than on the previous occasion, evinc
ing little of the recalcitrant spirit which
characterized her former progress to the
Temple of .3usticc, and necessitated the tin- I
ploymcrit of auxiliary motive pdwer. A
change of tactics also marked her defense.
She rested her case less Mcm Nituperati‘e
hostility towards the officiating constabulary
than on copious and lachrymose pathos; the
emollient influence of which ; she es^ayed
upon that or;eous formation popularly be
lieved to represent the human heart in
judges, lawyers and J. P's. This abandon-j
of aggressive warfare ror the seducing
softnesS of tears and entreaties evinced a
certain knowledge of human nature on the
part of Evanna Melissa, but a melancholy
ignorance of comparative anatomy. The
ordinarily universal solvent, a woman's
tears, failed to make an impression on the
Esquire's petrifaction, and we question
whether the young woman, had she wept
muriatic acid, or even old rye, would have
succeeded in biting deep enough to move tile
I first bowel of compassion in theJustica.—
That austere dignitary put on his sternest
I and most judicially be-wigged inflexibility
of countenance and deportment, heard the
evidence of the arresting officer, and, in soi
-1 cam tones, demanded of the prisoner wiled'.
er she had anything to say why the extreme
severity of the law should not he invoked in
her case—wily sentem:e Of death thould not
be passed upon her.
Mi , s Kuhn here turned very pale and
seemed for the first time to realise her criti
cal position. She reasoned. She ns , orted
that when sentence of baniAnne, l t Lail been
pronounced she was allowed no time for get
ting her "things" together, and how could
a young lady be expected to visit Lancaster
without a wardrobe? Further: her gar-
inents when "got together." were not in
iting conditioa; the felt justified in remain
ing one day to -,va-h and one day to iron.—
When this progres^, had been male in "get
ting ready" she discovered a defect in her
shoeing, and, as her pilgrimage, maugre the
thirty-five cent, was to be made afoot, what
could she do but tarry another day for re
pairs? This brought her to Saturday night:
she could n dt travel on Sunday: on Mondav
she was arrested. She threw herself on the
mercy of the court, only entreating not to be
:cot again to Lancaster. Her antipathy to
a summer residence in that city, she stated.
arose only from the fact that her parents and
friends moved in its first society. The Jus
tice thought he could provide her a snug lit
tle retreat where she would he secluded from
her relatives and the rest of mankind, yet
he could not recede from his former decision,
and change entirely her place of destination.
To Lancaster she must go; but this time in
charge of Richard. Evanna Melissa was
sentenced and sent down for £0 days at hard
labor, as a vagrant.
PENNSYLVANIA RsanoAD.—The removal
of the obstacles to the efficient working of
this great roal, between Philadelphia MA
Pittsburgh, is thus described by the U. S.
Railroad ana Mining Register:
Through passengers on the Pennsylvania
Railroad trace to this time been dubjected
to the inconvenience of °bangle.; cars at
Harrisburg; this change was compulsory,
even after the State had relaid the Colum
bia Railroad track with a wider space be
tween, because of the condition of n small
piece of iron track in Market street, east of
Broad street in this city. At the same time,
the short space between the bottom and the
crown of the tunnel on the Harrisburg and
Lancaster Railroad, at Elizabethtown, pre
vented the passenger engines of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company from drawing
trains through it. This obstacle has been
removed by cutting down the grade of the
track in the tunnel three feet, thereby al
lowing the smoke stack of the largest loco
motives to pass clear of the arch; the city
tracks in Market street are being relaid
wider apart; and on Monday the new ar
rangement took effect, under which the
trains will be passed over the whole length
of the road without change of car or con
ductor on the way.
A through passenger, therefore, who
takes a seat in a car at Eleventh and Mar
ket streets, Philadelphia, °rat Liberty street,
Pittsburg, will hold possession without
ejectment till the end of the road opposite
his starting point is reached.
ror the Columbia Spy
Ma. Enrrort—l take the liberty of asking
a small space in your valuable paper, to
correct a false and apparently malicious
story which appears to be freely circulated
amom,, , the citizens of Columbia, in regard
to the resignation of 31r..1. D. Nichols as
principal of the "Washington Institute."
The story goes that I rind my influence
with the Trustees to effc - ct his dismissal.
Now, sir, I ::.sort most fearlessly that the
said rtpert is false in every particular, and
challenge any man to show a single instance
in tvhieh I ti-c-1 any means to efreet his dis
,.bargT, rw in aay manner interfere with the
rues c•s of Mr. N. i is rapacity as principal
of the school, or :Lt any ti.ne made any dis
paraging rein:irk to the Trustees about him.
I call upon the Trustees, if they or either of
them know of any effort of mine to cause
his removal, to publish it to the world; or
failing to do re, I hope that those whose zeal
has i eiw n erently been awakened in his behalf
wilLeense ti.eir efforts fo do an injury to one
frion whom I am sure Mr. N. will say he has
received uniformly the • kindest trtiattnent.
I am not much in the habit of noticing the
eats an te may be disposed to gratify- their
malice by barking at my heels, but I feel
that justice to myself and all parties con
cerned requires me thus publicly to deny
their imputation , , and pronounce any one
who 111.1 y give further currency to tnese
renorts it /Mr.
I.IST OF JURORS. ,
To serve in the C ourt of Quarter Sessions,
r‘laimeneing Monday, the 16th day of
Lit. t est.
lieu, H. Bomberger, City.
Criali Carpenter, Warwiek.
Isaac Conklin, West Hempfickl.
tie,rge Diller. East Earl.
Charles Dingey, Eden.
Benjamin Eshleman, Conestoga.
A. S. Ewing, Brutnure.
Good, Salisbury.
David iiingerieb. Mount Joy.
David (intim, 111auheim.
Henry Hershey, East llempfield.
Christian O. Herr, Manor.
:Jacob Iliestand,
John M. 'Kreider, West 'lmpala.
Emanuel Longenecker, Penn.
Da‘ id Mast, Carnarvon.
John Masterson, llapho.
Chri.:tian Oberholtzer, Salisbury.
Levi Oberholtzer, Salisbury.
Robert Patterson, Little Britain.
George. Rigg, Carnarvon.
William Rhoads, Salisbury.
:lames Richardson, Culerainti.
Adam Wringer, West Earl.
PETIT JURORS.
To serve in the same Court.
Daniel Balmer, Elizabethtown.
David Brandt, Mount Joy.
George Buckvvrther, East Lampeter.
Cromwell Blattlt, Coleraine.
Derry Breneman, Strasburg.
Joseph Breneman, Rapho.
W. S. Bair, East Donegal.
Isaac Bushong, Upper Leaeock.
Franklin Breneman, Providence.
Levi Bair, Carnarvon.
Thomas C. Collins, Coleraine.
John Dyer, Maalmitn bor.
Jacob B. Eshleman, Manor.
Peter Ely, East Earl.
Samuel Fry, Warwick.
Joseph Frantz, East Earl.
Martin H. Fry. East Cocalico.
Philip Geist, West Lampeter.
Amos Green, Columbia.
Christian Grosh, East Donegal.
John IL Good, Brecknock.
Hugh S. Gaga, City.
John A. llouseal, East Donegal.
Daniel Herr, Strasburg.
Gee. It. Hendrickson, Mount Joy bor
John High. East Earl.
Frederick Itonver, West Hempfield.
Jacob Kline, Manhcitn.
Samuel M. Knox, Lencoek.
John Kirk, Little Britain.
.Abraham Leaman, West Lampeter.
Joel W. Lightner, Paradise.
Peter McConomy, City.
Benjamin Martin, Perinea.
AlJlaliani B. Mylin, Peptea.
Jacob Miller, Mount Joy.
Simon .Minnich, Manhritn.
Jahn Oherholtzer, Brecknock.
Jesse Pennypaelter, Clay.
George K. Reed, City
:l.lm A. Shealr, City.
Thimms S:111 , 19. Warwick.
Benjamin E. Shirk, Adamstown.
.Tulin Cad to Jr.. S ,, lisbury.
I'i illinm IVlther , .
Jacob Weal cr, S :11,bumy.
J. , epli Wenger, Fpper Leaeock.
Thomas Zell, Marietta.
Purg .VCD Sllol:C.—Massachusetts might
with propriety he called the "Shoemaker
state!" It appears that every eighth man in
the State does something towards making
shoe,! Sixty-two per cent. of the popula
tion is productive. We have 'SOO doctors:
1750 minister.; 1545 printers. Three per
cent. of the males work in factories; 17 per
ccot. are farmers; 5 per cent. are sailors;
0 per cent. traders. It has generally been
con6derra abrcad that Massachusetts was
most lst•gely engaged in cotton and woolen
manufactures, but that is but a small thing
when compared with her leather interests.
Every town in the State has its shoemaking
community. Many small farmers, on rainy
days and in winter. take it up as a sort of
knitting work, and 1111 out the year by this
means.
On Friday morning IGth, an accident oc
curred on the New York and Erie Railroad,
at Shin llollow, 75 miles from New York
City, by which the two bind ears of a pas
senger train were thrown from the track,
by We breakins, of a rail, and i'Fitlt their
content! precipitated down a thirty foot
embankment, killing n ine pars ons and watind
ing forty-seven, some of'them fatally.
General Quitman died at his• residence,
near Natchez, on Saturday last of the
discasb Athich be contracted at the National
Hotel last fall.
Governor Denverbasleft Washington and
gone back to Kansas.
A bridge over the Little Lehigh river, on
the Lehigh Valley Railroad, broke down on
Wednesday as a coal train of cars was pass
ing over it, and killed the fireman and engi
neer.
At the last dates ten thousand emigrants
had sailed from California for the Frazer
river gold mines.
It is reported that dispatches have been
sent to our Minister in Mexico, approving
of his course, and directing the withdrawal
of the legation from the county.
We have later news from Utah by the ar
rival of the mail at the western frontier.—
General Johnston had entered Salt Lake
City with his army on the 26th, and made
his headquarters there. lie had issued a
proclamation, inviting the Mormons to re
turn to their homes, which thus far they
have not done.
The De Riviere case, in New York, has at
length come to a termination—Mrs. Blount
having been, by some means, convinced
that the Frenchman was an imposter and a
married man, and agreed to return to Mobile
with her husband, and to restore her daugh
ter also to the father.- De Riviera is to be
allowed to escape.
General Ward 13. Burnett, of XCAV York,
accepts the office of Surveyor-General of
Kansas, has made all his appointments, and
will leave for the territory this week. So
theke is an and of Calhoun.
On the night of thel4th, a fire at Leaven
worth city, Kansas, destroyed the Union
Theatre and thirty other buildings, prin
cipally in the block bounded by Cherokee,
Shawnee, Second, and Third street. Loss
$lOO,OOO. Insurance trifling. The con
flagration was only arrested by a copious
shower of rain, and a lull of the wind; there
being no fire apparatus or organization in
the city.
The Swill Milkinvestigation in New York
city has all ended in trouble to the instigator,
the report of the majority of the committee
in favor of the stables having been approv
ed by the Board of Ikalth, and Frank
Leslie, who began the crusade, having been
sued fur libel by a member of the Board
of Aldermen.
J. 'W. FISIFEI:
Col. Kane will not pifbliAt an account of
his Utah dibploinaer., as has been stated, as
it is not calculated to advance the public
interests.
The Cam:lnches have been commiiting
depredations in the neighborhood of Fort
Arbuckle.
On the first of August the military de
partment of Florida will be broken up.—
Lieut. Gen. Scott has ismed an order com
plimenting Col. Loomis for having managed
to terminate the Indian troubles there.
It has been determined to build a second
sloop of war at the Philadelphia Nary Yard.
Scerctary Touccy has sufficiently recover
ed from his illness to transact the business
of the Navy Department. Ile kill go to
Connecticut at the close of the month.
The steamship North Star arrived at New
York, on Tuesday from Ikvre and Cowes,
with European advices to the 7th, three days
later than those brought by the steamer
Canada. The Atlantic telegraph cable
parted about a thousand miles from the
Irish coast. The Niagara and Gorgon ar
rived back on the sth inst., having abandon
ed the enterprise. The Agamemnon and
Valorous had not arrived on the 7th inst.—
There has been an arrival of 2500 ounces of
gold from New Zealand. A new gold field
has been discovered in Australia. An ex
change ef diplomatic attaches between St. Pe
tersburg and Constantinople has been 'direct
ed. The Rev. Mr. Spurgeon designs visiting
America. An allied naval expedition has
been organized to seize the shippi n g and stores
at Pecho, destined to supply the Chinese for
ces at Fckin. A visit is contemplated by
Queen Victoria to Cherbourg, to witness the
French naval review. The Spanish Ambas
sador, at London, has resigned in conse
quence of the change in the ministry. Ex
planations have been demanded by the
Viceroy of Egypt, about negotiating a loan
of nn English house. The Madrid cabinot
has been completed. General nos &Alan°
is the new Captain-General of Cuba. Ger
many and Denmark are in. diplomatic
difficulty.
Advices from the Nu . ; of Good trope
mention that a great fire had occurred at
Port tlizabeth, destroying the finest ware
houses in the place. .
GETTYSTMIC (PA.) RAII.nOAID.—On Friday
last the first loco:notice and train of cars on
this road crogsedtheConocrago bridge. The
Compiler states that the company are about
to take measures to erect a passengerstation
and other nec.essarybuilding.atGettysburg.
A BLAcr, JOKE.—Tile Louisville Journal
perpetrates the following:—
"Mr. J. Black, of the Suuarrn Banncr,
declares fur the dissolution of the Union.—
Let him have a traitor's reward:—
ge-A. Maine editor says that a pumpkin
in that State grew so large: that eight men
could stand around it. This is like the fel
low who saw a flock of pigeons so low that
he could shake a stick at them.
Brown wants to know "if a man's
boots squeaks hasn't he got music in Lis
solo?"
Items of News i
EMBE3
" 'lf un7, be the heavens ss iLh Elark
Letter on Asthma and Nasal Catarrh
BY lilt. N. B. WOLFE.
LETTER XXIV.
To the Editor of the Missouri DeinaCrut:
SIR-I propose to close this series of let
ters, by giving a description of Asthma and
Nasal Catarrh, and the only known mode of
successfully treating them.
Asthinct is characterized by shortness gif
breath, wheezing, and a sense of tightness
in the chest. The chest feels as though it
were bound. The patient sits up in bed
and pants fur air, the house feels too small
to breathe in, and the doors and windows
must be thrown open. if the fit is severe,
the perspiration starts out on the forehead,
the expression of the countenance becomes
ansfous, face haggard, lip's pale, hands and"
feet cold, and the heart beats violently. Af
ter some time these symptoms gradually
subside, and the patient is relieved. The
cause is to be found in spasmodic constric
tion of the air -tubes, caused by irritation of
the nerves supplying the lungs. This nar
rowing of the calibre of the tubes, prevents
the access of a sufficiency of air to the air
cells, and partial suffocation, (in which con
sists asthma,) is the result. There are sev
eral forms of asthma.
Nervous or Spasmodic Asainza.--In this
form the structure of the lungs or heart, in
the first instance, depending purely upon
sudden cramp or contraction of the muscu
lar fibres of the air -tubes; but if proper
treatment be not applied early, extensive
disorganization of the lungs will take place.
and life be rendered a burthen. Some au
thors make a separate class of those cases
of spasmodic asthma, where there is none or
scanty expectoration, but the distinction is
unnecessary. They call it dry asthma.
Emphysema is asthma in which a portion
of the air-tubes are enlarged, generally from
prior attacks of bronchitis, or that form .of
it called by some, congestion of the lungs.
In these cases the patient is never entirely
easy in the breathing, some shortness being
always present, nor can lie down horizontal
in bed. Unless checked by proper treat
ment more and snore air-tubes dilate, until
the sufferer's life becomes one of persistent
misery.
TrealmenL—Asthma, is admitted on all
hands, to be a purely local disease, depend
ent most commonly on bronchitis, and yet
hitherto, it has baffled the art of the most
scientific physicians. The first step in the
right direction, was the introduction of in
haling the fumes of burning saltpetre and
stramonium and the vapors of ether and
chloroform, and the relief afforded by these
palliatives, is often prompt and great. But
they leave the cause of asthma untouched.
By a scientific employment of medicated in
halation, the causes are attacked and re
moved. Dry catarrh, thickening and ulcer
ation of tho air tubes, and other irritating
provocatives of asthma, aro easily removed
by this means, and result in the permanent
cure of asthma. This is the only philosoph
ical, rational, and successful mode of heal
ing this disease; the cure is prompt, and re
lief speedy, and had inhalation done no
more than this, it would have a weighty
claim on the gratitude of mankind.
To present the subject of nasal catarrh
intelligently to the reader, it is necesmry to
observe, that the entrance to the lungs is
approached by two sets of cavities, the nos
trils, and the mouth, opening into one large
one, the pharynx. These arc lined by a
mucous membrane, which is continued down
the windpipe into the bronchial tubes, to
the minutest ramifications, and invests the
tiny air-cells in which they terminate. In
flammation travels along mucous membranes
with facility, hence the importance attach
ing to either of the cavities above designated.
First in order comes the nose, in our climate
prone to a chronic inflammation, called na
sal catarrh, so often the precursor of con
sumption. Sometimes a chronic discharge
is so insidiously established that its com
mencement cannot be defined, but more com
monly a series of acute attacks of nasal ca
tarrh succeed each other, the mucous mem
brane being increasingly enfeebled at each
successive invasion, a 'permanent state:of
chronic rheum is left, which extending into
the throat and windpipe, gradually reaches
the nir-cells, and from the imperfect ceration
of the blood, tubercle is deposited, and thus
the foundation of consumption is laid. The
fact cannot be too strongly impressed, that
whatever impedes the:due access of the air
to the blood, will in time so vitiate its qual
ity, in particular in fibrin°, that specks of
the latter are gradually deposited in the air
cells and minute bronchia, and by their
growth constitute tubercles, and going
through various changes and disintegrating
the substance of the lungs constitute that
awful malady, consumption. Among the
principal causes capable of occasioning this
state of things are, catarrh, vitiated air, im
proper positions of the body, deprliation of
light, nervous exhaustion, and inflamed sur
faces of air cells. In this aspect, nasal ca
tarrh resolves itself into a question of vast
importance, and we shall now proceed to de
tail the symptoms.
.Actre. Carat - La:lr.—At first, the breathing
through the nose is interrupted by the
swelling of the lining membrane, which is
hot and dry. Then acrid fluid distils from
the nostrils, blistering the skin in its pro
gress. Cold air or bright light cause sneez
ing. The disease in severe cases is not
limited to the nostrils, but extend to the
eyes, and frontal sinuses, through duets
lined with mucous membrane, hence the
profuse showers of tears, and the heavy pain
over the eyebrows, that are so often present
in this disease. The general system sym
pathises, and fever is set up, there is pain
in the back, and a sense of painful fatigue
in the thighs. The discharge from the nose
gradually thickens and becomes yellow, los
ing its acridity, and as this change pro
gresses health gradually returns.
Crtntecte Camnan.—From repeated acute
attacks in a scrofulous constitution, or from
neglect, the mucous membrane of the nose
becomes altered in structure, and Chronic
Catarrh is established. It may consist in
hawking or clearing out the throat of a yel
low straw-colored phlegm, (particularly iu
the morning) which accumulates behind the
soft palate, and on examiningthe throat may
often be seen hanging down in festoons or
streaks; or small ulcers foram in the nose;
which scab over, and arc constantly picked
off by the sufferer. Again, false membrane
is secreted, which the patient removes from
time to time; or the secretion may be puru
lent and irritating, and constantly dripping
into the throat, excites the various diseases
of the throat tiiid lungs, hereafter to be de
scribed. - Thdtdcers somelifffes spread down
to the bone and prodilang Caries, a very
formidable state of things ensues ; character
ized by a thin offensive discharge. Chronic
Catarrh derives its importance from ite-On
dency to spread down the throat to the air
tubes and cells, laying the foundation of
consumption of which it is often the precur
sor, and usually the accompaniment.
_ll;enee
should it never be neg7ecica.
TREATIIENT.—UntiI ithe employment of
local remedies, Nasal Catarrh was incura
ble, for it is evident that the complaint
could not be reached by sending medicines
the round of the stomach and circulation in
search of the disease. By means of a pecu
liar syringe, proper washes are thrown
over the affected surface, and as the throat
is usually more or less involved, inhalants
are indicated. Passing into the lungs, they
exert their healing influence on the throat
and air tubes, and exhaled through the nose
continue their benign influence.
I remain, your obedient servant,
N. B. WOLFE, M. D.,
Physician for the Diseases of the Lungs
Nora.—Dr. Wolfe will remain in Colum
bia, Lancaster co., Pa., until the first of
September, and may be consulted .for .all
diseases of the Throat and Lungs until that
time. He has prepared a, circular for per
sons at a distance, who may be laboring
under disease of the Lungs, and will send•
it on application by letter.
A Good Thing Well Applied
The scientific discoverer and the scientific
inventor are distinctand different characters.
It is rarely that he who discovers a great
principle applies it successfully and thor
oughly. Sometimes, however, this is the
Professor Holloway was among the
first to broach the theory that disease was
the result of the introduction of morbid mat
ter into the circulation. But of itself this
theory, however true. was useless. It
could not subserve any beneficial purpose to
point out the leettlit.3 of the band unless the
discoverer were provided with an antidote
capable of reaching it: Professorllulltway
came up to the good work doubly arntdd.-:
He had not only traced the symptoms of
disease to their genuine cause, but had, af
ter long research and innumerable experi
ments, produced two remedies which would
infallibly reach it. Time, which tries all
things, lies tested the value of thoseremedies.
What has been the result? During the
twenty years they hale been before the
world, thousands of medicines, hundredc of
new systems of practice have been ushered
into existence, enjoyed an ephemeral popu
larity, and passed into oblivion. Not so
I foLhe Pll LS and OINTMENT. They
•stand first on the list of tandem ceratil es.
Their reputation is founded on a ruck—the
rock of truth—and cannot be shaken.—
Scarcely a year ago their inventor came to
our shores unheralded. It is true that large
quantities of his medicines were consumed
in the United States, and that his skill, his
enterprise, his success, were often referred
to by the American press, but personally he
was unknown to us, end the great system of
agencies with which he had covered more
than half the habitableglobe had not yet been
extended to this country. He came hither
for the purpose of affording us new facilities
for the procurement of his preparations, and
the consequence has been an increase of one
hundred per cent., in the demand fur them
within a few months. It appears, from the
statement of all who have taken the Pills'
for indigestion, that their effect in cases of
dyspepsia is almost beyond belief. As this
complaint has with some truth been called
the national disease of America, a specific
that never fails to remove it is of course in
valuable.
The public, on both sides of the Atlantic ;
had been so often victimised by medical
charlatans during the last fifty years, that it
received with something of distrust the first
rumors of the efficacy of HoLtow.tr's reme
dies. But every day furnished new proofs
of the fact, and at last such was the over
whelming weight of evidence in their favor,
that it became more absurd to doubt than
to believe. They grew in celebrity, and the
demand for them increased with a rapidity
unexampled in the annals of medical science;
nor has their fame or that of their inventor
yet attained its culminatingpoint. Itnever
will reach that point, for culmination pre
supposes cessation of progress: 'and so long
as humanity is subject to pain, fever, injur
ies and death, Holloway's Pills and Oint
ment must continue tomaintain - their proud
pre-cruinence.—N. I`a l. Vol. G=elle.
Penn'a R. R.—Departure of Passenger
Trains.
Trains r,ot. Leare Columbia. Arrire at ,rbira
Express, 9.00 A. N. 12.50 r. N.
Harrisburg Ace., 2.50 r. r. 7.05 "
Mail Train, 6.55 " 11.00 "
Fast Line, S.OO „ 4.40 A. M.
Trains nisi. Lear, Cotumbta. Art. at Harrisburg
Mail Train, 11.16 " 12.30 P. 31.
Harrisburg Acc., 7.40 " 9.00 "
Arr. al Columbia.
2.40 A. M.•
4.25 P. M.
Expreqs,
Fast Line,
Tim Gm'Araa - r llonse Monarr.—Cincinnati iv now
the !amen harm market m the Utaiird Stave., nod dor
lag one week. lately, forty thou•nnd dollar.' worth of
laor.es NS ere mold nt the t nriou• stable.. ruila t jeph ia is
the greaten clothing. market. and the grentest establish
ment mat the Brown Stone Clotlattg Hall of
& NVII.on, Nos. Gll3 nod 605 Chestnut street, above
Sixth.
July e 1 ,1P.19.
lldii•rays Pills produces a intact surprising dinneo
in ea-, or general debility. The I take, do t' , lava irl,
%chose flaccid !mt•clr. and relaxed nervous sy strm
have scarcely •nthcu•ut vitulty to social. his emaciated
torn, in no erect pe-limo. rs t.oon renovatt d and lanced
the invirminor effeet of this met le., remedy, and
his .5110'0 frame is reanimated nod lilhed with energy.
"parr:: resume their Luey Haley, and InC feels like n
new• roan Such is the experience of thousand.. Lon
res ity depend• in a great measure !upon the regular rind
healthy notion of the orrarts or direction nod. excretion,
and upon these organs operate
July 21,1°59.
advertige mem. of Dr. Sanford's LTVLII IN
V 14.0 NA iOll. I itatiother colulnn.
Al ay 1,5:,
1000 DOLLARS REWARD will be nand rot any
Itledirine that will Pawl PRATT 3:. BUTCHER'S
MAGIC OIL for the following di•ectses:--Ithrumas
Born. Neuralgia. Spinal A ffections,Contriteled loons,
Cliolie PAM. In the Side or Back. Ilrailae he,
Tootherhe.Sprains.SoreThroat,ents.ltruisea.liurne,
and all Diseases of the Skin, Muscles and the Glands.
Nnne gerutne without the signinture of I'RATT &
1117TNIER ntirtehed to each label Principal Office,
206 Washington street. Brooklyn, N.Y.
The greet number of persons lbw hove been Imme
diately relieved in nll the citie•nnd towns where it
Ito. been used. us well as iii this city. i
them n
saying. In all candor, then it is the greatestettre in the
world for pain. ever sold.
Dr. E. D. HERR. Sole Wholesale Agent fey (Warn
lint. Sold lip all respectable Drugeists th-oughool
hr Bolas, States and Canada. [Oct:l7, 157.1 y