Whole No. 2552.
A NEW STOCK
OF
Cloths, Cassimeres
ANI)
VESTS NGS,
lis? just been received at the Lewistown
Emporium of Fashion, which will be made up
to order by experienced workmen.
jTjGcntlcmcn art requested to call.
WM. LIND.
Lewistown, April 21, 1859.
Removed to the Stand lately occupied by
Kennedy & Junk in.
& Bi-IEEB @23^27(513
A Year's Credit to Responsible
Men !
/^-— 'jjY The subscriber having now on
hand one of the best and largest
between Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh, in order to accom
modate business to the times, oilers for sale a
complete assortment of
Saddles. Harness, Bridles, Collars, Trunks,
Whips, Hames Valise*, Carpet Bags,
and other articles in his line, which will be
disposed of, when purchases are made to the
amount of 510 or more, on the above terms for
approved paper.
Among his stock will be found some highly
finished sets of light Harness equal to any man
ufactured.
Let all in want of good articles, made by ex
perienced workmen, give htm a call.
JOHN DAVIS.
Lewistown, April 7, 1859.
New Fall and Winter Goods.
J) F. ELLIS, of the Lite firm of McCoy
IV & Ellis, has just returned from the city
with a choice assortment of
Dry Goods and Groceries,
selected with care and purchased for cash,
which are offered to the* public at a small ad
vance 011 cost. The stock of Dry Goods em
braces all descriptions of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS
suitable for I/tJies, Gentlemen and Children,
with many new patterns. His
<£ voce tins
comprise Choice Sugars, Molasses, Java, llio
and Lagoyra Coffee, snp.-rior Teas, Cue. Also,
IS ds anil Shoes. Queens ware, and all other
articles usually found in stores—all which
the customers of the late firm and the public
in general arc invited to examine.
K. F. ELLIS,
garfish, Salt, Plaster and Coal always on
hand.
Country Produce received as usual and the
fuifmarki-t price allowed therefor.
Lowistovn, Sept. 22, 1859.
ROBERT W. P ATT ON,
SOI TH sum: of .biuret street,
LKW ISTOM PA.
HAS just received and opened at his es
. tabiishinent a new supply of
Clocks. Watches. Jewelry,
Fancy Articles, &c.,
which he vriil dispose of at reasonable prices,
lie invites all to give him a call ar.d examine
'■is stock, which embraces all articles in his
line, and is sufficiently large to enable all to
make selections who desire to purchase.
teT RE PAIRING neatly and expeditiously
attended to, and all work warranted.
thankful for the patronage heretofore re
ceived, he respectfully asks a continuance of
hie same, and will endeavor to please all who
way favor him with their custom. feb2
EDWARD FRYSINGER,
WHOLESALE DEALER & RASAFACTARER
or
CllilliS, TOBACCO,SMW,
&c., Ac ,
Orders promptly attended to. jelG
JNO. R. WEEKES,
Justice of the Peace,
ScHUrurt K
/ F FICE West Market street, Lewistown, next
U door to Irwin's grocery. ap29
REMOVAL.
mJi DR. S. S. CUMMINGS
Twßegs leave to announce that he has re
sß moved his office to Mrs. Mary Marks'
Orug and Variety Store, on east Market street,
a few doors below the Union House.
The Post Office has also been removed to the
stnesd lace. mh3l if
Wanted! Wanted!
||k IU |/| PERSONS of both sexes to
1" ' M /CJ make money by buying cheap
jroceries, llaskets, Tubs, Buckets, Churns,
ater Cans, Brooms, Brushes, Ac. &c. at
au g4 ZERBE'S.
Threat reduction in prices:—
vJ Just received, a large supply of new
pattern COAL OIL LAMPS of various kinds
t Prices, with the new patent Menill's
crner. which prevents all smoke and insures
a steady flame equal to gas at about one
• "rd the cost. For sale by
' an ' F. G. FKANCISCCS.
imasjffism) ass® sir irasrsasMKHfis tummsa<mrv 9 msmw <ss>wsws. VA
THE WHITBE3L
THE PAUPER'S DRIVE.
There's a grim one horse hearse in a jolly round trot.
To the church-yard a pauper is going I wot;
The road it is rough, and the hearse has no springs,
And hark to the dirge which the sad driver sings:
CHORUS.
Rattle his bones over the stones,
He s only a pauper whom nobody owns.
j Oh : where are the mourners' Alas there are none,
ESe has left not a gap in the world, now he's gone.
Not a tear in the eye of child, woman, or man.
to the grave with his carcass as fast as you can.
1 What a jolting and cracking, and plashing and din.
1 ile whip how it cracks, the wheels how tliey spin,
j How the dirt right and left o'er the hedges is hurl',l.
j The pauper at last makes a noise iu the world.
Poor pauper defunct! he has uuuLb soma approach
To gentility, now that he's- s wei*.-l*d in a coacii;
He s taking a drive in his carriage at last,
But it will not lie long, if he goes on so fast.
But a truce to this strain, for my soul it is sad
To think that a heart in humanity clad,
.■ihould make like the brute, such a desolate end.
And depart front the light without having a friend.
B\.r soft his hot> s over the stoats.
Iho a pauper, he one whom his Maker yet owns.
loiM&araeom
—.
Count Them.
Count what? Why, count the mercies
which have been quietly falling in your
path through every period of your history.
Down they come every morning and every
evening, as angel messengers from the
Father of lights, to tell you of your best
friend in lleaven. Have you lived these
years, wasting mercies, treading them be
neath your feet, and consuming them every
j day, and never yet realized from whence
they came? If you have, heaven pity
you.
You have murmured under afflictions,
but who has heard you rejoice over bless
ings ? J>o you ask what are these luer
j cies ? Ask the sunbeam, the raindrop, the
1 star, or the queen of the night. What is
life but mercy ? What is health, strength,
friendship, social life, the Gospel of Christ,
Divine worship? Ilad they the power of
speech, each would say, ' I am a mercy.'
Perhaps you have never regarded them as
I such. If not, you have been a dull stu
dcut of nature or revelation,
i \Y hat is the propriety of stopping to
play with a thorn bush, when you may
' just as well pluck sweet flowers, and cat
pleasant fruit.
Yet we have seen enough of men to
know that they have a morbid appetite for
| thorns. If they have lost a friend they
will murmur at the loss, if God has given
them a score of new ones. And somehow
1 everything assumes a value when it is gone,
! which man would not have acknowledged
when he had it in his possession, unless,
j indeed, some one wished to purchase it.
Happy is be who looks at the bright
! side of life; of Providence and of revelation;
who avoids thorns, and thickets, and sloughs
until his Christian growth is such that if
he cannot improve them, he may pass
among them without injury. Count mer
; cies before you complain of them.
persons are cheerful workers.
In the family, in the church, and in society
they are ready for every good word and
work. Their time is spent in losing, and
so in finding their lives. They are never
disturbed by a fresh appeal for help. If
they can respond, they do so cheerfully.
If they cannot they as cheerfully refrain.
These arc the pillars of our churohes, and
the moving power of every good enterprise.
Their example stimulates the slothful, and
urges forward the lagging. They do not
worry, do not look sour, do not chafe at
the sight of a burden. They bless and are
blessed. Let their number be multiplied
IEICELLANEOUS.
A Town on an Underground Lake.
Rev. W. C. Smith, presiding elder of
one of the Indiana Conferences, gives the
following account of Morgantown, in that
State, one of the peculiarities of which is
that it is built on a lake. We read of a
" city set upon a hill,'' but .Morgantown,
in my district, stands upon a lakel This
was not known for a number of years alter
the town was settled. The discovery was
made by digging wells to procure a fresh
supply of water. The supply of water in
the wells which had been used failing in
the dry season, a few years since, ouc of
the citizens concluded to sink a well deep
er, and see if he could not strike a strong
er vein. When some thirty-five or forty
feet below the surface of the earth, the
man at work iu the well suddenly struck
his pike through a crust; the water gushed
up with such rapidity that with difficulty
he was saved by the men at the windlass.
In a few moments the water was some fif
teen feet deep in the well. In two or
three instances afterward, men were near
being lost by coming suddenly to this in
exhaustible fountain of water.
Wells have been sunk in different parts
of the town from each other, and I believe
forty feet is the greatest depth to reach
this lake. Lead lines have been dropped
into several ol these wells, but no bottom
has been found. In digging down to this
lake, they invariably pass through strata of
THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1860.
sand, leaves and timber, resembling drift
wood. 1 his is some twenty feet below the
sui face ol the earth. Alter clay is found,
and when within some eighteen, inches ol
the lake, a hard crust is reached, which is
a sure indication that they are near the wa
ter. When they reach this crust they
commence a wall thereon, carrying it to
the top of the well, then put down a large
augur, and bore a hole to the water, which
gushes up with, great force, filling the well
from fiitac!* to twenty leet in a few min
utes. W hen the augur strikes the lake
the atmosphere bursts up for a few seconds,
producing a sound resembling very much
the blowing off of steam from an engine.
1 have not given all the particulars of what
has been discovered of this mysterious lake.
Enough is known to settle it beyond a
doubt that the whole town stands upon a
lake under ground.
The Sacred Handkerchief.
Near the Convent of Abraham at Orfa,
is the ancient cloister Ishanli Kilisse, (the
church with bells,) wliere the handker
chief is preferred with which the Messiah
wiped his lace.—They guard it with the
i greatest care, fearing Lest some king, eager
to enrich himself with such treasure,
should carry it away, and accordingly they
refuse to show it. Myself having much
mingled in my travels with Greeks, 1 beg
i ged of the monks their favor to be shown
the handkerchief, but they assured me
that there was no such thing in their con
vent. Having taken an oath on the Evan
gelist and on the doctrine of Jesus that I
would not discover to any one the existence
of their handkerchief, I was led to an ob
scure cave, on the outside of which I left
my servants. The cave was illuminated
with twelve candles. They produced from
a cupboard a small chest, and from the
chest, a box studded with precious stones,
which on being opened spread a perfume
of nioschus and ambergris, and there I be
held the notable handkerchief. It is a
square of two ells, woven of the fibres of
the plaintree.—After the passion, Jesus
having put this handkerchief to his face,
it received the impression of his enlighten
ed countenance in so lively a manner that
everybody who looks on it'believes it to be
a living image, breathing, smiling and look
ing him in the face. I have not the least
doubt that this is the true impression of
Jesus' face. Having had many conversa
tions with learned and well informed men,
and having seen in my travels thousands of
marvelous things produced by the ingenui
ty of art, I examined it a long time, whether
it might not be like so many other pic
tures iu Christian churches, the master
piece of some skilful painter; but I con
vinced myself, by the evidences of my
senses and reason, that this awful portrait
was the true picture of Jesus, because even
such men as myself who behold it, begin
to tremble, overawed by the effect of so
great a miracle. 1 took it with reverence,
put it to my lace and bid it hail. — Kclia's
Tra veh.
A Woman Recovers §SOOO Damages
from Parties who Sold Liquor to her Hus
band.—A sipgylar suit has just been deci
ded in the Champaign (Ohio) county Com
mon Pleas. The action was brought un
der the 'act to provide against the evils
from the sale of intoxicating liquors,' pass
ed May I, 1854, the seventh section of
which gives to a wife, child, parent, guar
dien, employer, or other person who shall
be injured in person, property, or means of
support, by an intoxicated person, a right
of action against the person who sold the
liquor to the intoxicated person. Plaintiff
in this case was Jane Brush, and the dc
lendent Peter Lawson. Damages laid at
twenty thousand dollars. The plaintiff set
forth in her petition that she was on the
29th of April last, and now is, the wife of
one Ileed Brush; that said Reed Brush was,
and for a long time hitherto has been in
the habit of getting intoxicated and drunk,
which was well known to the defendant.
That the said defendant, well knowing the
premises, did, on the 29th of April last.
1859, in violation of law, sell and deliver
to said Brush one pint of whiskey, which
the said Brush then and there drank, and
with which the said Reed Brush was made
intoxicated and frenzied. That in conse
quence of said sale, and by means of said
drunkenness, and while in the state of in
toxication, said Brush did furiously seize
an axe, and without provocation upon the
part of plaintiff, and with force and violence
put off her left foot, whereby the plaintiff
is now crippled. The defendant alleged
that the maiming, &c., wgs the result of a
domestic quarrel, but the court ruled
that the immoral character of any one can
not reduce the rights guaranteed by the
law to him. The law makes Reed Brush
the instrument of Peter Lawson, and the
defendant eannot claim anythiug more in
this case than if he had in propria persona
thrown the axe. The jury, after a short
consultation, returned a verdict for the
plaintiff, assessing her damages at five
thousand dollars.
New Orleans Bulletin says that
a tannery tirm there has been putting the
numerous alligators which swim lazily about
the bayous and swamps of Louisiana in
the sun to a useful purpose. They have
been making their hides into leather, and
a capital article it is said to be. Quite a
nuniber of the citizens were wearing shoes 1
made 01 it, and spoke of it in high terms.
Appearance of Locusts.
D 2. Gideon 11. Smith of Baltimore,
writes to the National Intelligencer that
the locusts will appear extensively this
year. The following States and parts of
States will be occupied by them, viz :
New York and Connecticut—from Long ;
Island Sound to Washington countv, New
York ; from the Connecticut river to the i
Hudson river, and several counties in New i
York west of the Hudson river, to Mont
gomery county, on the Mohawk river.
New Jersey —occupying, the whole State, j
Pennsylvania—in that portion, bounded by 1
Peter's Mountain on the south, Manhattan
Mountain on the north, the Delaware river
on the east, and the Susquehannah river
on the west.
Maryland—from Anne Arundel county
to the middle of St. Mary's county; from
the Chesapeake to the Potomac river.
Virginia—from the South part of Lou- j
don county to the Roanoke river ; from the
Blue Ridge to the Potomac river.
North Carolina—Casswell, Rockingham,
Stoakes, Guilford, Roman, Surry, and ad
jacent counties,
Michigan—about Kalamazoo.
Indiana —Dearborn and adjacent coun
ties.
They will commence emerging in North
Carolina about the 10th ol May, and a
few days later for every hundred miles as
we progress North, until the Ist of June,
in Washington county, New York. This
will afford a fine opportunity to- test the
correctness of the assertion that they do
not appear regularly every seventeen years.
None of the southern tribe (thirteen year
locusts) appear this year.
-1 Desire for the Stage. —Quite an ex
citement has been occasioned in Washing
ton by the action of two young ladies of
that city who, having become fascinated
with the stage, formed the project of elop
ing to New York, with the intention ot
appearing as actresses. They have both
occupied the first social position, are finely
educated, s!)d one of them is the daughter
of wealthy parents. In pursuance of their
mad project they packed up quite itn ex
tensive wardrobe of dresses, and by some
means made their way undiscovered to the
railroad depot, 011 Friday last, but arriving
there fortunately too late for the train, they
were forced to return to the city, but, in
stead of going to their homes they took
lodgings for the night at a boarding house
near the Capitol, doubtless with the inten
tiou of proceeding with the execution of
their plan the next day. In this however
they were defeated by the action of their
relatives, who had in the meantime discov
ered their whereabouts, and they were
consequently rescued from what might have
become a sad fate.
Shocking Affair at tfapierviUe, 111.—
-I Whole Family Poisoned. —The citizens
of Napiorville, Dupage oounty , have been
having a mad dog excitement lately. One
day this week, a gentleman, whose name
we have not learned, went to a drug store
to get some poison for the purpose of ex
terminating a part of the canine commun
ity, and while there purchased some chew
ing gum for his children, lie put both
packages in his pocket and returned home.
By mistake he gave the wrong package to
his children and baited his dogs with the
gum, in consequence of which the former
very soon died. Not long after, his wife
also expired from the effects of a small por
tion of the supposed gum, and the man
was himself taken dangerously ill—he hav
ing taken a taste of the poison under the
same mistake. Our informont states that
the child of another man has been poison
ed in the same town by eating a soda
cracker prepared tor a dog.
te£r-Tke will of John, (i. Rokev, the
father-in-law of John Dean, the coachman,
who eloped with ' his own Mary Ann,'
about three years ago, was offered for pro
bate, in the Surrogate's Court, on Monday.
The testator leaves all his property, con
sisting of a cotisiderab.ie amount of real
and personal estate, to his wife, to be di
vided, after her death, into four parts,
which are to be distributed among four of
his children. One cuts ' Mary Ann' off,
however, from the share she was to have
had when the testament was framed
—the deceased even mentioning his desire
to have her name entirely obliterated from
his will. The citation Is returnable on the
28th of next month.
B&,lmportant information has been
communicated, by Superintendent Collins,
to the Indian Bureau, to wit: that a body
of United States troops, acting in conjunc
tion with Mexican, hotly pursued a body
of Indians, who had been committing rob
beries and ravages in the valley of the llio
Grande, near Santa Fe, overtook them,
killed twenty-eight Indians and retook a
a large number of cattle, besides 17,000
sheep. Two soldiers were killed on our
side and several severely wounded. This
is one of the most successful pursuits that
has taken place in many years, and it is
believed that it will materially check the
depredations that have of late been so
frequent and outrageous in that part of the
country.
Painful Meeting. —We learn front the
Pittsburg Chronicle, that fur some time
past a house of ill-tame ha< annoyed the
citizens of a village o the line of the
Cleveland and Columbus railroad, and it
was determined that the house should be
broken up. On Thursday night the Mar
shall of the village made a descent upon
the house, took the inmates in custody, and
on Monday morning they were taken be
fore u magistrate for examination. There
were three girls among the prisoners, and
as the eye of the magistrate fell upon one
of them he grew deathly pale and hastily
adjourned the court. Among those
wretched and abandoned girls he recogni
zed the once fair features of his own daugh
ter ! Several years before while attending
a female Seminary in an Eastern State,
she had eloped with a worthless fellow, and
her father h;d never heard cf her or seen
her until that terrible morning. Deserted
by her husband, .she adopted a life of pros
titution and found her way to the West.
Her father, unknown to Iter, moved to the
West and settled in the village above allu
ded to.
' Love Jiulss the Court.' —A jury in Tex
as lately acquitted a man on the charge of
horse stealing, although the crime was
clearly proven against him, simply because
he stole the horse to elope with his sweet
heart, who was present in court during the
trial, aud waiting to marry him if acquit
ted. The jurors had probably all been in
love themselves, at cue period or another
of their lives, and there was not, perhaps,
one of them but what would have done
the same tiling, in their younger days, if
they couldn't have got their wives with
out..
£ssSf*The tobacco crop raised in York
county Pis... last season, it is estimated, will
amount to not less than four hundred thou
sand pounds.
}\hal Ailed Him. —The last number of
the Knickerbocker has a good anecdote of
a man who rarely failed to go to bed intox
icated, and disturb his wife the whole night.
I'pon his being charged by a friend that
he never went to bed sober, he indignantly
denied the charge, and gave the incidents
of one particular night in proof.
'Pretty soon after I got into bed, my
wife saiu,
'' Why husband, what is the matter with
you ? You act strangely !"
"There's nothing the matter with me,'
said I, 'nothing at all.'
'' I'm sure there is,' said she, 'you don't
act natural at all. Shan't 1 get up and
get something for you?'
'And she got up, and lighted a candle
and came to the bedside to look at me, sha
ding the light with her hand.
"I knew there was something strange
about you,' said she, 'why ! you are sober.'
' Now, this is a fact and my wife will
swear to it, so don't you slander me any
more by saying that I haven't been to bed
sober in six months, 'cause I have.'
gaT-Two darkies had bought a mess of
pork in partnership; but Sam having no
place to put his portion in, consented to en
trust the whole to Julius'keeping. The
next morning they met, when Sain says:
'Good mornin', Julius, anything happen
strange or mysterious down in your vicini
ty lately ?' ' Yaas, Sam, most a strange
thing happen at my house yester last
night—all mystery, all mystery to me.'
'Ah, Julius, what was dat?' 'Well, Sam,
I tole you now. Dis mornin' I went down
into the cellar to get a piece of hog for dis
darkey's breakfast, and I put my hand in
de brine and felt all round, but no pork
dcre —ail gone. Cudn't tell what bewent
with it, so I turned up de bar'l, and Sam,
true as preachin, de rats had eat a hole clar
fro de bottom of dc bar'l, and dragged de
pork all out!' Saui, 'Why didn't de brine
run out ob de same hole.' 'Ah, Sam, dat's
de mystery.'
6k£~A young lady, of extraordinay intel
lectual capacities, recently addressed the
following letter to her own cousin :
' Dear Kuzzen —The weather whar we
is are kold, and I suppose whar you is it
are kolder. We is all well, and muther's
gott the his Terrigks, brother Tom has got
the Hoppiu. Koff, and sister Susan has got
a baby, and I hoap these few lines will find
you in the same condishun. Rite soon,
Yore opbeeshuuate Cuzzen.'
BfßL,Suspicious tailor to a suspected eusto
tomes:
'Make you a coat, sir?'
'O, yes sir, with the greatest pleasure.'
'There, just stand in that position, please
and look right upon that sign while I take
your measure.' The sign reads ' Terms
Cash-'
fifegfWhat a fine head your boy has,'
said an admiring friend.
' Yes,' said the foud father, 'he's a chip
of the old block, ain't you, sonny ?'
' I guess so, daddy, 'cause the teacher
said yesterday, I was a young blockhead.'
' John, spell effects.' ' F-x.' Right.
Next spell seedy.' 'C-d.' Right again.
Now spell cakes.' ' K-a-x.' 'There's a
good boy!' said his mother, handing John
ny some of the latter.
New Series—Vol. XIV, No, 20.
mwmmtmk
[For the Cktxette]
I Mr. Editor—ln the last issue of the Gnzetto
I notice an article from " A Physician," in
which, from illogical reasoning, he misrepre
sents or arrays me against myself. 1 certain
ly wish to inculcate certain principles in the
minds of the people, relative to the treatment
of Scarlatina and many other forms of dis
ease, had I the privilege of occupying suffi
cient space in the Gazette. Ido accuse phy
! sicians of laboring under false ideas in regard
to disease, and more particularly do I accuse
j " A Physician" of laboring under a most
egregious error concerning the fundamentals
principles cf the healing art. i do ignore
! the idea that disease is an entity, nor do I
contradict myself when 1 say, "Their bodies
get obstructed, and their blood inflammatory
| from bad food, bad air, because I did
not admit that obstruction by impurities con
i stituted disease. " A Physician," having a
; different standpoint, interprets my language
accordingly, and wishes to make it appear
that 1 contradict myself, while his argument
j amounts to an admission that disease is an
• entity—something in the human body that
must be combated as a foe.
lie takes it for granted that the obstructions
constitute disease. J stated plainly that dis
ease was remedial effort. Now who cannot
see the difference between an obstruction and
the effort to get rid of said obstruction. Wc
define disease to be remedial action —an effort
of nature to expel impurities front the system
—vital action in relation to things abnormal.
Hence we repudiate the administration oS
such substances that are chemically and phys
iologically incompatible with the human tis
sues—drugs, medicines.
Suppose a thief > be in y< u: hnu&e, jvj rec
ognize him as such, and that ymt make an ef
fort to eject said thief; now is there not a
marked difference between the thief and your
efforts to get him out. Certainly. So it is
in disease, impuritcs accumulate and the vital
machinery makes an effort to expel these im
purities, and this action, on the pax) of the
system, constitutes disease—not the thing to
be acted upon. And this action is Scarlati
na, or any other disease, j ust according to ths
direction or manifestation of the remedial el
fort.
We know full well that these unpliysiologi
cal conditions niu>t l>e rectified In-fore the pa
tient will get well, but it is neither philosophy
nor common sense to administer other ob
structions--poisons—in the shape of drugs,
to eure Scarlatina, or any other form of dis
ease. But to be consistent with the princi
ples taught in the medical colleges, and in
the standard test books, physicians must give
drugs, to cure all forms of disease, or in otl -
er words they know of no other way of cur
ing than by substituting nciv diseases to
cure (?) the existing morbid conditons.
The principle of counter irritation is noth
ing less than the substitution of one disease
for another, and it can be plainly seen that
the counter irritation must be greater than
the existing difficulty, or else the new inrpres
sion will be of no effect. Hence we see that
those who are cured cf different fevers, have
some form of chronic disease which is worse
than that of which they were cured. Fevers
e.re scientifically (?) cured by substituting ul
cers, dyspepsia, consumption, rheumatism
and the whole catalogue of maladies. I did
not say that physicians killed more than they
cured, but if I would wish to prove- that they
did, I would not make, assertions oa ray own
responsibility, but I would go to the highest
acknowledged authority of the profession,
and consult the facts and confessions of those
who speak from long experience and authoiv
ty. I wuuld quote from Prof. M. Payne who
says, " The tuost violent poisons are among
our best remedies." "In the treatment of
disease we but substitute one morbid action
for another." Prof. Alonso Glark, M. D.,
savs physicians have learned wisdom. They
have learned that more harm than good has
been done by the use of drugs in the treat
ment of measles, scarlatina and other self
limited diseases." "In scarlet fever, you
have nothing to rely on but the vis medicatrix
natura."
" A Physician" attempts to hoodwink the
people by saying that " I am of the
opinion, when I look at the list of drugß
which the Dr. mentions over, that he knows
nothing about drug medication." I think 1
only know too much about it, and if there is
any lameness in the list of drugs mentioned,
it is because I did not complete the cataloguo
of remedies that are used in the treatment of
scarlatina. If any unprofessional persons
wish to find out which of us tell 3 the truth, 2
refer them to the standard works on medicine,
and to the latest medical journals of the day.
It is not for me to ask whether any physician
wishes the vital action to leave the surface and
settle on the internal organs. It is enough
for me to know that such is the result.
A. T. HAMILTON, M. D.
ACADEMY.
TITHE Second Session of this Institution
JL will commence on MONDAY, February
20th. New classes will then be formed as cir
cumstances require. Particular attention will
be given to those preparing to teach.
Those wishing to study and practice Music
may be assured of the best advantages.
Mies S. E. VANDCZER will continue to give
instructions upon the Piano.
Rates of Tuition, $3.00, $4.50 or SO.OO,
according to the grade of studies.
For further information address
novlT M. J. SMITH, Principal.
Notioe to Tax Collectors,
TITIIE Collectors of State and County Taxes
_L for 1857 and 1858 are hereby notified to
pay over the balances due on their respective
duplicates forthwith, or I shall feel impeHed
to issue warrants against them, the condition
of the treasury rendering such a course abso
lutely necessary. The Collectors for 1859 are
also notified to prepare themselve to settle
their duplicates by April Court.
WM. C. VINES, Treasurer.
Lewistown. March 1, 1860