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SPEECH OP HON. JOHN L. DAWSON.
The Democracy of Westmoreland
county held their County Conven
tion a few days since. It was large
ly attended and passed off pleasant
ly and harmoniosly. Hon. HENRY D.
FOSTER presided on the occasion.
The Convention having been or
ganized, J. C. Clark, Esq., in a few
appropriate remarks introduced to
the Convention HON. JOHN L. DAW
SON, of Fayette county. the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress, who
was received with enthusiastic ap
plause.
Mr. DAwsoN began his address by
referring in sttong and denunciatory
language to the prevalent slanders of
the Abolitionists charging our prom
inent leaders and nominees with dis
loyalty and Secession sympathizes.
As our opponents have already be
gan this course in relation to Mr.
Dawson, he, to place himself fairly
before the people touching the
questions now agitating our troubled
country, and that there may be no
misunderstanding hi% true position,
read the following enunciation of his
principles :
Ist. No State has a right to secede
from the Union. Secession is rebel
lion and treason. I admit the revo
lutionary right of a people to resist
a ruler who oppresses them by ille
gal acts ; but this right of resistance
goes only to the extent of the illegal
oppression ; it does not in any case
authorize the breaking up of the
government. This rebellion com
y,►enced in resistance to the just and
lawful authority of the United
Ttatos—is therefore altogether with
ont • justification. It must be put
down, the authority of the govern
ment should be vindicated, its integ
rity preserved, and its power en
forced. This is the prime object of
the war, and this being accomplish
ed, the legal and constitutional
rights of all the States and all the
people ought to be protected and se
cured.
2d. I am persuaded that the Union
nannot he restored to its old harmo
ny on any other terms. It is a fatal
policy to insist on illegal and uncon
stitutional conditions. There are, no
doubt, many ambitious and rebellious
men in the South who are and were
unwilling to submit to the mild rule
of the Constitution itself. But the
masses of the people were not with
them. On the 4th of March, 1861,
nine-tenths of the Southern people
were as true as any of us to that
Union for which their fathers as
well as ours had shed their blood.—
Mr. Lincoln in his first message to
Congress at the extra session of 1861
said what was clearly true, that the
secessionists had not a majority in
any State, except, perhaps, South
Carolina. Now, all accounts concur
in saying that there is great unan
imity and stubborn determination.—
What has wrought this unhappy
change in the minds of so many ?
It is attributable in my opinion to
the threats of confiscation and
emancipation. This was the expla
nation which the members of Con
gress from the Border Slave States
gave to the President in a recent
communication, and I have no doubt
they were right.
3d. if elected to Congress, I will
maintain and ever defend the free
dom of speech, the liberty of the
Press, and the Habeas Corpus. I
will oppose all unconstitutional mea
sures whether aimed against the
South or the North, the East or the
West. I must swear to support the
Constitution, and I will endeavor to
keep my oath with all due fidelity. I
am satisfied that it is only by an ob
servance of the Constitution, and a
proper regard for the rights which
it secures to all sections of the coun
try, that our present struggle can
be conducted to a fortunate issue.—
We can restore the Union as it was
only by preserving the Constitution
as it is. It is idle talk to think
that we can bring or keep the
States together by mere force with
out regard to their local laws, their
individual rights and their domestic
institutions. I agree with General
Jackson, who said in his Farewell
Address, that "the Constitution can
not be maintained, nor the Union
preserved by the mere exertion of
the coercive powers of the govern
ernment—that the foundations must
be laid in the affections of the peo
ple, and in the fraternal attach
ments that.the citizens of the seve
ral States bear to one another as
members of one political family."
I concur also with Mr. Seward
who, in his instructions to Mr. Ad
ams, our Minister at London, de
clared that "only an imperial or des
potic government could subjugate
thoroughly disaffected and insurrec
tionary members of the State, This
Federal Republican system of ours
is, of sit forms of ,government, the
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very one which is most unfitted for
such a labor."
4th. These are not times when bit
ter partizan feelings should be in
dulged. I will give my hearty and
unreserved support to any adminis
tration, or any man who with the
Constitution in one hand and the
sword in the other, will aid in bring
ing our country through its present
troubles.
sth. I repudiated with abhorrence
the first proposal to create a section
al party, or to introduce sectional is
sues into our political discussions,
because I believed that success upon
such an issue would endanger the
Union. Ido not say this is a good
reason for destroying the Union—
far from it; but I feared it would
have that effect. In this I took but
the advice of Washington, of Jeffer
son, and of many thousand others,
the greatest and wisest men of the
nation, living and dead. I did not
and do not believe in any "higher
law" than the Constitution. I did
not and do not think there was any
necessity flit. an "Irrepressible Con
flict" between the North and the
South. We had lived together for
three-quarters of a century, and it
was our duty to continue so with a
mutual regard for one another's
rights. I, in common with other
members of the Democratic party.
believed that the wretched slang of
the Anti-slavery press. pulpit aneros
trum, by means of which demagogues
tried to excite pl ejudice and hatred
against the amthei n people was dan
gerous to the peace of the country.
6th. At the same time we did not
propose to make concessions to the
South of any thing beyond their
plain Constitutional rights; we
were willing to give nothing and
take nothing but the Constitution
and laws as expounded by the Su
preme Court. This course, if it had
been followed with fidelity in refer
ence to slaves both in the States and
in the Territories, would have kept
the country united, tranquil and
prosperous.
7th. I will insist that oppressive
taxation should be avoided, and that
taxes to be just. should be equal—that
the wealth of the world consists of
labor and production and bears the
burthen. That in the management
of public affairs economy should be
the rule and not plunder.
Bth. I will oppose the scheme of
emancipation with remuneration, for
the reason that even $3OO per head
(the price or valuation fixed for the
slaves in the district of Columbia) it
would cost the nation $1,200,000,000
--uould withdraw 4,000,000 of pro
ducers, cast them upon the country
as either competitors of white labor,
or as idle consumers and eat out and
destroy the substance of our people.
In conclusion I will take a deep
interest in the success of the army
and granting in proper supplies in
fighting the battles of the Union un
der the shield of the Constitution
and will welcome the return of our
gallant soldiers to their homes with
lawful pensions and bounties.
IN the course of Mr. Dawson's re
marks, lie paid the following elo
quent and well-merited compliment,
to lion. Edgar Cowan :
DIY FELLOW CITIZENS Or WEST
MORELAND, I have thus given you,
in a brief history of this Abolition
segment of tho Republican organi
zation, whose fanatical schemes, thus
far crrried out, have done much to
involve this country in an almost
hopeless accumulation of troubles._
It is a part of the policy of this sec
tional party to asperse, and seek
to cover with oploquy, whomsoever
they may find indepentent enough
to act out the integrity of a lofty
character, by opposing, in any de
gree, the madness which seems their
only principle of action. This they
have sought to do in the person of
your distinguished fellow citizen and
neighbor, the Ilon. Edgar Cowan.—
In the seat which ho occupies in the
United States Senate, that eminent
gentleman honors alike, his immedi
ate constituency, and the State
which he represents. This is a dec
laration demanded by his whole his
tory, and particularly by his bold
and patriotic course in the Senate.
Who of you does not know that Ed
gar Cowan was.but a poor boy, and
that,by the forced intellect and indus
try. he has attained success and dis
tinction. He has thus illustrated in
his career, the influence orfree insti
tutions, upon the native power and
energies of the mind. It is natural,
as well as just, that.he should de
fend against infringement, a Consti
tution to which he owes so much.
His speech against the Confisca
tion Act was the effort of the lawyer
and statesman. His manly defense
of Jesse D. Bright against the most
disgraceful persecution, was worthy
of Cato in his best days in the Roman
Senate. His resistance of the crazy
project of Charles Sumner to treat,
by legislative enactment, the States
in rebellion as escheated or forfeited
territory, is the more to be com
mended for his declaration in that
connection, "that the only way the
Union should be rstored was that
every part should enjoy its rights."
His opposition to the scheme of sub
stituting paper money, in the shape
of the legal tender, for gold sknd 511-
ver, was based upon Constitutional
law, and, in the progress of time all
must agree, was as full of warning
as it was of wisdom.
In the general scramble for plun
der which has appalled the nation,
and covered all over with blotches
some in Congress as well as in the
Cabinet. Mr. Cowan, with his robes
unsullied, walks abroad in the light
of the sun, and like Cazar's wife is
above suspicion. .
History is full of examples of great
men, who, in the boiling cauldron of
revolution, and in the excitement of
terrific passion have suffered con
demnation for having dared to do
rig,ht. In defense of . a great cause,
talents, integrity, and courage have
ever to contend with ignorance, en
vy, prejudice, passion, and tyrranny.
These are the obstacles everywhere
to be encountered in the battle of life;
in the struggles of a nation to retain,
as well as to acquire, the principles
of free government ; and in the pur
pose of Providence, seem to be the
destiny of mankind. Mr. Cowan,
then, in his able and manly effort in
defense of the Constitution as it
came from the pens of Madison,
Franklin, Hamilton and their corn
peers, and as it received the approval
of Washington, could scarcely expect
to escape the censure or notice of a
faction, by whom this matchless in
strument has been pronounced a
"covenant with death and an agree
ment with hell," and in whose re
gard nothing seems to be sacred or
venerable. Cicero at the imminent
peril of his life, opposed all the pow
ers of evil in Rome, in suppressing
the conspiracy of Cat4ine. He did
it to save his country and succeeded;
but it sent him into exile as soon as
Cinsar and Clodious succeeded to the
Consulate. Edmund Burke and the
elder Pitt. in their immortal speech
es in the British Parliament, defied
the Crown in doing justice to the
American Colonies. The great
French lawyer and unblemished pat
, riot. Malesherbes, at every personal
hazard, defended with unavailing el
oquence the Unfortunate Louis the
XVI, against the clamors of a blood
thirsty mob, for such had the Nation
al Convention now become. He
failed but his devotion brought him
to the scatibld.
Daniel Webster, in 1850, in defi
ance of the heresies of Massachusetts,
stood out upon the ramparts of the
Constitution, and defended, with the
zeal of the patiiiot, the noble charter
of our institutions and the Union of
the States. In which of these in
stances does not the clear disappas
sionate voice of history, rise in ring
ing tones of approbation of the mor
al heroes who stood by the cause of
justice, and of truth ! If Mr. Cowan,
therefore, has incurred odium in re
sistino• the mad torrent of faction, in
his noble efforts to suppress this mad
rebellion under the broad Ages of
the Constitution, that will hereafter
constitute his best title to the grati
tude of his country.
Biuttlantcruo.
BRITISH BARBARITIES IN INDIA
Many of the English papers are
trying to prejudice the public mind
against us by harping upon the cruel
ty and ferocity which our command
ers are said to exhibit in the conduct
of the war, though there be no proof
to sustain the allegations; and when
their falsehood is clearly shown, our
accusers have not the magnanimity
to recall their slanderous reports.—
The Boston Journal has collected a few
examples of British atrocities prac
ticed during the rebellion in India,
which have never been condemned
by the British statesmen and press.
We quote them together with the
Journal's comments, as follows :
In this book entitled "My Diary, in
India," Dr. Russell says a French of
ficer had complained of certain vio
lences attributed to some British of
ficers in cold blood. "But he should
know," says the Doctor, "that there
is no cold blood at the sight of a re
bel." He then adds :
"When Neil marched from Allaha
bad, his executions were so numerous
and indiscriminate, that one of the
officers attached to his column had
to remonstrate with him on the
ground that if he depopulated the
country he could get no supplies for
the men."
At Delhi a certain house was held
by the rebels with a resolute bravery,
which Doctor Russell says, was
worthy of being chanted in national
song. But after the house had been
completely perforated by artillery,
and entered. and most of the remain
ing inmates dispatched. the narra
tive proceeds thus:
"One of their number was dragged
out to the sandy plain outside the
house; he was pulled by the legs to
a convenient place, where he was held
down, pricked in the face and body
by the bayonets of some of the sol
diery, whilst others collected fuel for
a small pyre, and when all was ready
—the man was roasted alive ! There
were Englishmen looking on—more
than one officer saw it. No one of
fered to interfere. The horror of this
infernal cruelty was aggravated by
an attempt of the miserable wrote&
to escape when half burned to death.
By a sudden efrort he leaped away,
and, with the flesh hanging from his
bones, ran for a few yards ere he was
caught, brought back, put on the fire
again, and held there by bayonets till
his remains were consumed."
Dr. Russell refers to the hanging
of a relative of a Hindoo prince, "un
der circumstances of most disgusting
indignity, while a chaplain stood by
among the spectators," and adds :
"All these kinds of vindictive, un
christian, Indian torture, stieh as
sewing Mahomedans in pig skins,
smearing them with pork fat before
execution, and burning their bodies,
and forcing Hindoos to defile them
selves are disgraceful, and ultimately
recoil on themselves. They are spir
itual and mental tortures to which
"we dare not perpetrate in the face
of Europe."
What a confession is this ! But
what reader of these extracts will not
feel that it is too true ? To proceed,
however. Here are two brief extracts
which speak for themselves:
"One of the civilians of the station
who visited me boasted that he had
hanged fifty-four men in a few hours
for plundering a village."
"In two days forty-two men hanged
on the roadside, and a batch of twelve
men were executed because their
faces were 'turned the wrong way'
when they met on the march. All
the villages in this (Rena ud's) front
were burned when he halted "
Recording a visit to a particular
locality, Dr. Russell says: "I heard
a story which astonished me—not
the tale so much, for I have heard
many of them, as the way it was
told." This is it, and we think it
will astonish others :
"On a certain occasion a place was
strongly occupied by the enemy.—
Our men carried it with great gallan
try, and bursting in proceeded to
kill all whom they found inside. The
work nearly completed when this of
firer perceived a number of Sepoys
crouched upon the flat roof of the en
closure. They had been firing on
our men, but seeing the terrible fate of
their comrades they sought to escape
notice, and had taken to this place of
refuge. They made signs to the offi
cer that they would surrender, and he
ordered them to come down the nar
row staircase leading from the roof,
find as the first Sepoy appeared he
told the man to take off his belt' and
pouch and lay it with his musket
down upon the ground. The same
thing he did with each succeeding
Sepoy till he got them all, fifty-seven
in number, upon which, he said,
fell them in against the wall and told
some Sikhs who were handy to pol
ish them oft This they did immedi
ately, shooting and bayoneting them,
so that, altogether, they were dis
posed of in a couple of minutes.'"
Is not this enough, in all con
science ?—And yet this is but a frac
tion of the list published and unpub
lished, of the atrocities perpetrated
by the English in suppressing the re
bellion in India. They are as oppo
site to the course of our Government
in the present war as the blackest
darkness is to sunlight. We know
that they are condemned by the
great mass of the English people.—
But while they are freshly on record,
before the eyes of the world, can any
English statesman or press, with the
least regard to justice or propriety,
attempt to direct public indignation
against our Government ? There
can be but one answer to such a ques
tion.
:THE REV. SIDNEY SMITH.
Of all the estimates which have
been written of the genius and
character of the Rev. Sidney Smith,
none exceeds in truthful illustration
that which Earl Russell has given in
the Memoirs, &e., of • 1 homas Moore :
:His (Sidney Smith's) gteat delight
was to produce a succession of ludi
crous images : these followed each
other with a rapidity that scarcely
left time to laugh ; he himself laugh
ing louder, and with more enjoy
ment than any one. This electric
contact of mirth came and went
with the occasion ; it cannot be re
peated or reproduced. Anything
would give occasion to it. For in
stance, having seen in the newspa
pers "ha I,Sir JEneas Mackintosh was
come to town, he drew such a ludi
crous caricature of Sir .Eneas and
Lady Nee for the amusement of
their namesake, that Sir James
Mackintosh rolled on the floor in fits
of laughter, and sidney Smith, strid
ing across him, exclaimed: 'Runt
Justitia.' His powers of fun, were,
at the same time, united with the
strongest and most practical common
sense. So that, while ha laughed
away seriousness at one minute, he
destroyed in the next some rooted
prejudice which had braved for a
thousand years the battle of reason
and the breeze of ridicule. The Let
ters of Peter Plymney bear the great
est likeness to his conversation ; the
description of Mr. Isaac Hawkins
Brown dancing at the court of Na
ples, in a volcano coat, with lava but
tons, and the comparison of Mr.
Canning to a large blue-bottle fly,
with Its parasited, most resemble the
pictures he raised up in social con
versation. It may be averred for
certain, that in this style he has nev-
er been equalled, and I do not sup
pose he will ever be surpassed.
"Sydney," says Moore, "is, in his
way, inimitable ; and as a conversa
tional wit, beats all the men I have
ever met. Curran's fancy went
much higher, and also much lower.—
Sydney, in his gayest flights, though
boisterous, is never vulgar."
It was for the first time learned in
his daughter's book, in what pover
ty Sydney Smith spent many years
of his life, first in London, next in
a Yorkshire parsonage. It was not,
however, that painful kind of pover
ty which struggles to keep up appear
ances. He wholly repudiated ap
pearances, confessed poverty, and
only strove, by self-denial, frugality,
and every active and economical de
vice, to secure as much comfort for
his family as could be legitimately
theirs. In perfect conformity with
this conduct, was that most amusing
anecdote his preparations to re
ceive a great lady—paper lanterns
on the evergreens, and a couple of
jack-asses with antlers tied on to
represent deer in the adjacent pad
dock. He delighted thus to mock
aristocratic pretensions. The writer
has hbard (he believes) an accredited
anecdote of him, with regard to an
over-flourishing fiimily annonce in a
newspaper, which would have made
him out to be a man of high grade
in society. "We are not great peo
ple at all," said he, "we are common
honest people—people that pay our
bills." In the like spirit was his an
swer to a proposing county histori
an, who inquired for the Smyth arms
—"The Smythes never had any arms
but have always sealed their letters
with their thumbs." Even when a
little gleam of prosperity enabled
him at last to think that his family
wanted a carriage, observe the phi
losophy of his procedure: "Atter
diligent search, .1 discovered in the
back settlements of a York coach
maker an ancient green chariot, sup
posed to have been the earliest in
vention of the kind. I brought it
home in triumph to my admiring
family. Being somewhat dilipated,
the village blacksmith repaired it;
nay, (but for Mrs. Sydney's earnest
entreaties.) we believe the village
painter would have exercised his
genius upon the exterior, it escaped
this danger, however, and the result
was wonderful. Each year added
to its charms, it grew younger and
younger; a now wheel, a new spring;
I christened it the 'lmmortal ;' it,
was known all over the neighbor
hood ; the village boys cheered it
and the village dogs barked at it ;
but 'Faber mete fortuner' was my mot
to, and we had no false shame."—
Book of days.
THE SUNSET OF TWO LIVES.
"A. K. H. B." writes in an Eng
lish Magazine a pleasant essay about
"Beginnings and Ends." Here is his
description of life-sunset.
' I have been touched by the sight of
human life, ebbing almost visibly
away; and you could not but think of
the sun in his last little space above
the sea. I remember two old gentle
men great friends: both on the ex
treme verge of life. One was about
90; the other above 80. But their
wits were sound and clear; and bet
ter still, their hearts were right.
They confessed that they were no
more than strangers and prilgrims
on earth; they declared plainly that
they sought a country far away,
where most of those that they cared
for were waiting for them. But the
body was very nearly worn out; and
though the face of each was pleasant
to look at, paralysis bad laid its grasp
upon the aged machinery of limb and
muscle which had played so long. I
used, for a few weeks, to go one even
ing in the week and sit with them,
and take tea. They always had tea
in large breakfast cups- Y other cups
would not have done. I remember
bow the two paralytic hands shook
about, as they tried' i to drink their tea.
There they were, two ;old friends;
they had been friends from boyhood,
and they bad been over the world to
gether. You could not have looked,
my friend, but with eyes somewhat
wet, at the large teacups shaking
about, as the old men with difficulty
raised them to their lips. And there
was a thing that particularly struck
me. There was a large old-fashioned
watch always on a little stand on the
tea-table ticking on and on. You
seemed to feel it measuring out the
last minutes, running fast away. It
always awed me to look at it and hoar I
it,. Only for a few weeks did I thus
visit those old friends, till one died;
and the other soon followed him,
where there are no palsied hands or
aged hearts. No doubt through all
the years the old-fashion watch had
gone about in the old gentleman's
pocket, lifh had been ebbing as really
and as fast then. And the sands were
running as quickly for me as the aged
pilgrims. But then with me it was
the middle, and to them it was the
end. And I always felt it very sol
emn and touching to look at the
two old men on the c mfines of life,
and at the watch loudly ticking off
their last hours. One seemed to feel
time ebbing as you see the setting sun
go down.
NEW SERIES.--VOL. 4, NO. 15.
I A Battle at Richmond, Ky., and the Union
Foroes Defeated.
A battle took place on Saturday,
near Richmond, Ky., lasting from
morning till four o'clock in the after
noon, resulting in our troops being
driven back with serious loss. The
particulars of the affair are given as
follows in a telegram from Cincinnat
ti :—On Friday afternoon the
rebels beyond Richmond drove in our
cavalry. Gen. Manson, with the
69th and 71st Indiana, moved up,
and after throwing a few shells, the
enemy retreated rapidly beyond
Rogersville, leaving one gun behind.
Gen. Manson bivouacked for the
night. On Saturday morning Gem
Manson advanced with two regi
ments and four guns, and coming up
with the enemy, an artillery fig,ht
began, with heavy loss on both sides.
The enemy attempted to turn our
left flank, when sharp fighting oe
cured between the skirmishers. The
69th Indiana advanced through a
dense fire of shot and shell to the re
lief. of our skirmishers, and behaved
like old soldiers, but the rebels final
ly turned our left flank, and advan
ced in full force on our column.—
Gen. Manson ordered a retreat, and
fell back three miles and reformed
his line of battle on some high hills
with his artillery in position on the
right and left flanks. Firing by ar
tillery was recommenced and kept
up briskly on both sides. After
fighting about two hours, the enemy
advanced on our right flank, under
cover of the woods, and after severe
fighting succeeded in turning it.
A retreat immediately took place
to the originally camping ground.—
Here Gen. Nelson came up, and, aft
er great efforts, succeeded in rally
ing the men, and formed another
line of battle. Our artillery ammu
nition was nearly exhausted, and
some guns left without men to work
them, all having been killed or
wounded. General Nelson was
wounded about three o'clock P. it.,
when our men again fell back, re
treating to Lexington. The ene
my's force numbered from 15,000 to
20,000. The Federal forces engaged
consisted of the.9sth Ohio, and the
12th, 16th, 66th, 69th and 71st Indi
ana, and Munday's and Metcalf's
cavalry. The loss in killed and
wounded are heavy on both sides,
but the number is not yet known.—
Lieut. Col. Topping and Major
Kunkle, of the 71st Indiana, are
killed.
A Louisville dispatch of the 31st
gives the following additional : At
Lexington, last night, all the bells
were rung, and all male citizens or
dered out, who slept on their arms.
Major-Generals Wright and Wallace
are in Lexington. The Federals are
fully prepared in case of an attack.
Gen. Nelson left en route for Cin
cinnati to-day. A Bowling Green
dispatch says a large rebel force un
der Buckner, was at Tompkinsville.
The rebels destroyed the telegraph
to-day at the State line, thus cutting
off communication with Nashville.—
Gov. Morton and suite arrived at
the Galt House this evening. Con
siderable of excitement prevails in
the city.
WOUNDS FROM BULLETS.
The terrible experiences of the
battle-field gives our thoughts and
inquiries at present a war like direc
, Lion; and it is well for us to know
' somewhat of the chc.nees of life which
our wounded soldiers may have la
ter being once hurt. A recent vol
t time on military surgery, by Dr Ap
pia inform us that" bullets are some
: times found in the body of the wound
ed person quite flattened out; some
times they split in equal halves; and
sometimes they will strike against a
stone and be scattered in all direc
tion like a shell. 'ln Algiers, a ball
broke into five fragments on a rock
five or six paces frofn a grenadier, the
first fragment struck and broke his
right ancle, two other pierced fur
, ther down, the fourth wounded his
right thigh, and the fiith lodged in
the skin at the back part of his head.'
During the revolution of 1848, Dr.
Appia made many curious observa
tions upon gunshot wounds. The low
er limbs, he says, are struck in the
proportion of about five to four
with respect to the upper. The prin
cipal cause of this difference is evi
dently the greater bulk of the lower
extremities, while the movements of
the arms presenting a forshortened
appearance to the ball, also probably
contribute to it. The following is the
relative frequency with which differ
ent parts of the body are struck by
the bullet: leg, 100; thigh, 97; face, 61;
arm, 90; hand, 57; chest, 53; abdomen,
52; shoulder, 42; skull, 37; foroarn, 36;
knee-joint, 34; foot, 29; elbow joint,
22; neck, 22; ankle-joint, 25; hip, 6;
vertebra, 10: wrist, 2. The treat
ment of a gunshot wound is often
much complicated by the foreign bod
ies which the bullet carries in with
it—pieces of wadding, of efoth, of
shoe-leather, of worsted, of :hair, of
linen, and of wood. A eipzeu of
Lyon in 1835 had twenty Napoleons
in his pocket, which, struck by the,
ball, were driven into his stomach,
and, adds, the practical Laroche, 'al
more or less spoiled.