THE STAR OF THE NORTH. I. W. Weaver Proprietor.] OLUME 7. THE STAR OF THE NORTH IS PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY MORNING BY K. W. WEAVER, OFFICE —Up stairs, in the new brick build ing, on Ike squtk side of Main St cert, third square below Market. TE RMS:—Two Dollars per annum, if paid within six months from the time of sub scribing ; two dollars anil fifty cents if not paid within the year. No subscription re ceived for a less period than six months ; no discontinuance permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the editor. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square will be inserted three times for One Dollar and twenty five cents for each additional in sertion. A liberal discount will be made to tboee who adveriise by the year. , {cnKs2<o2B : "BORROBOOL.\*GH A." A stranger preached last Sunday, And crowds of people came, To hear a two hour sermon Willi a barbarous sounding asms; Twat all about some heatheus Thousands of miles afar, Who lived in a laud of darkness Called " Borroboola-Gha." So well their wants be pictured, That when the plates were passed, Each list'ner felt bis pockets, And goodly sums were cast; For all must lend a shoulder, To push the rolling car, . That carried light and comfort To '• Borroboola-Gha." That night their wants and sorrows I.ay heavy on my soul, t And deep in meditation 1 took my morning stroll; Till something caught my mantle With eager grasp and wild, And looking down with wonder, I saw a little child. A pale and puny creature, In rags and dirt forlorn ; What could she want, 1 questioned, lmpslienl to be gone; Willi trembling voice she answered, " We live just down the street, And mammy she's a dyin' And we've nothing left to eat'" Down in a wretched basement, With mould upon the walls, Thro' whose hall-buried windows God's sunshine never fall-; Where cold, and want, and hunger, Crouched near her as the lay, I found a fellow creature Gasping her life away. A chair, a broken table, A bed of dirty straw, A hearth all dark and cheerless— But these I scarcely saw ; For the mournful sight before me, The sad and sick'ning show— Oh I had I ever pictured A scene 'o full of woe ! Tbe famished and the naked, The babes that pine for bread, Tho squalid group that huddled Around the dying bed : All this distress and sorrow _ Should be in lands afar; " Was 1 suddenly transported To " Borroboola-Ghi." Ah, no! tba poor and wretched Were close pehind the door. And 1 bad passed them heedless A thousand limes before. Alts! for cold and hunger That met me every day, While all mv tears were given To the suffering far away. There's work enough for Christian* In distant land, we know ; Our Lord commands his servants Through all the world to go. Not only for the heathen ; This was his charge to them— " Go preach the word, beginning Ftrit at Jerusalem." Oh ! Christian, God has promised Whoe'er to thee lias given A cup of pure cold water, Shall find reward in heaven. • Would you secure the blessing, You need not seek it far; Go find in yonder hovel A " Borroboola-Glia." Rev. Br, Clarke on Voluntary Oaths. Let all Know-Nolhings, (says the Missie tippian,) and particularly those professing religion, ponder the following extracts from tbe Gospel of Jesus; and we especially in vite the attention of Methodist* to ttev. Dr. Clarke's comments thereon. Turn to thr first Epistle of James, slh chapter, and 12lt verse, end read: " Bui above all things my breth rsd, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by tbe ehrth, neither by any oath, lest ye fall in to condemnation." So likewise in Matthew, *fl:h obapter, and 84th versa : " But I say u lo you, swtcr not at all, neither by heaven, for it ia God's throne, nor by the earth, for it isM* footstool, nor by Jerusalem, for it is the eity of the greet King." Rev. Dr. Clatke, in his ce ,nnlßDlar y 00 these passages, say*: "He that uses any oath, exoept that which he is solemnly called by the magistrate to make, so far from being a Christian, does not deserve the reputation of deoenoy or common sense." GOOD ADVICE.— Never throw a etone at any one mil yon have looked to see whether tbere it a window behind, or you may have to pay rather dear for your revenge. Never fix your own price, but leave it en tirely to the liberality of the gentleman aa the chances are you will gat a great deal aore by It- Never alt ne*t to a young lady at dinner for aba only "talks sod does not oare about eat ing* Never qnarrel with your wife, (if you have got any,) as you will only have to make up and pay tor the recojwiliation in Ihe ehape of • season ticket at the opera, e trip to the springe, e silk drese or e cashmere shawl. Never mention yon have received e lege ey, or soma impertinent fellow will be ask leg you to viand a dinner. BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1855. BLOSSOMS ON A THORN BUBU. BV REV. EDWARD C. JONES. A peculiar disposition there is in most of UR to overlook the boufttios of God, while magnifying our grievances. The eye of the mind, when it sweeps the panorama of its experience, rests on the dark shadings of the canvass, but quickly withdraws its gaze from the bright tints, as if its vision were hurt by the sunbeam. We converge to a focus our cares and trials, but allow our joys to diverge f;om our recollection, and be lost in the mis ty atmosphere of non-existence. This pro pensity to magnn'" the evil and obliterate the good, should be checked. It converts man into an undisguised arruigoer of the prtjvt- dence of God. It lead# him to look at the tree of life as a thorn bush without a blos som, and ultimately induces him to decry thosO innocent enjoyments which to others imparl d'e.'tgbl, i>u'- to him appears but vani ty. And one great ,'eason why this spirit should be avoided, is the that every thorn bush has its blossom, iti the r." >oral wo,ld > ,f not the natural. Every cala.mity, when view ed aright, will ba found to be lemperd*'* w''h some genial quality which blunts its There are oircumsiancea which nollifiy' anu neutralize its sternness. If the air of the des ert be hotter, it has a vitalizing healthfulnees, clearness and transparency, at early dawn,, .which it cannot elsewhere gain. And so in the moral relations. The heated sands of grief are accompanied by a purer atmos phere, than would the profuse, blooming and exotic floral vegetation of the tropical region of joy and prosperity, for maletia floats above the garden when its treasures of sweetness are 100 closely packed. Take a grief and an alyze it. Put it under the microscope of an unwarped philosophy. View it in the clear light of Revelation, and do not see an angel a wing to it, where before you recognized the outline of sn arch inquisitor 1 Has it not &s --sutnod new and entrancing features upon which you love to dwell. One little one yoa love is taken, but others are left. The thorn bush has a blossom. Business falls, but vig orous health remains. The blossom again crowns the thorn. Bodily health is snapped, but the imperial intellect is poised upon a steady base, and the mine asserts its sound nest and integrity. The blossoms are thick ening among the thorns. The reputation suf fers by slanderous charges, but conscious in nocence wails with placid heart the advan cing hour when justice will come uppermost, and truth forever splinter the poisoned lance of guile. See bow the thorn-bush lias be come an Aaron's rod, and showers down its blolsoras at our lest. Our ambitious designs are frustrated, but place brings care, and from that care we are mercifully delivered. Our friends become entangled, but God opens his arms, and says, I love you still. HIUS, however rugged is the path of proba'ion, it can be smoothed by compensating advanta ges. Among the rocks which diversify the windings of the journey, moss and flowers will creep, and the discordant tones of the tempest will ever and anon give place to flute-like melodies, and bitd-wsrblings, and the soothing sound of the rivulet. The iron lance of misfortune will disclose its golden point if our eyes be thus annotated by a di vine philosophy, and events, apparently the most untoward, appear like silken threap* in the loom of Providence,not brazen manacles to letter and impede us. A mind which thus turns alchymist, and extracts from the coars est and moil uninviting materials, the pre cious and the pure, can never be cast down the precipice of a dumb despair. Never will ir loose sight of the paternal character of God. Though broken be its wing, it will try to soar. Though the oracle will be dark and ambiguous, it will try to favorably interpret its uiterings. It will count the joys which yet remain, tather than those which have de parted. It will wipe from the mirror of hope the breath-moisture of doubt, and allow it to reflect afresh unclouded images, and high above the storm it will hang bow of prom ise, like a sapphire gem, to iufusea serenity, and generate a truthfulness, whose possess ion will enable while it blesses tbe suffering child of humanity. The Sick Man'i Bed If tbsre be a regal solitude, it ie • bed.— How the patient lords it there; what caprices he acts without control! How king-like he ewayt his pillow—tumbling and tossing, and shifting, and moulding it to the ever-varying requisition of his throbbing temple. He changes sides oltener than a politician. Now he lies full length,-then half length, oblique ly, transversely, head and feet quite across the bed : and none accuses him of nation. Within the four curtains he is abso lute. They are his Mare Clausum. How •ich'.ness enlarges the dimensions ol a man's self to • He is his own exclusive object. SupreJJte selfishness is inculcated on him at hit only duty. 'Tie the two Ta blea ofltie Law to bira. He has nothing to think of but how to get well. What passes out of doors or within them, *o be hear not the jarring of them afleots him not. "Paddy, my jewel, why don't you get your ears cropped ? They are entirely too long.for a roan." "And yours 100 short for an ass!" replied Pat. The strongest kind of a hint.—A. young lady asking a gentleman to see if one of bat rings will go on hi* little finger. fIT It la about as hopeless a task lo get a rich woman to live a life of common sense, salt is to get ■ rich man in'o the kingdom of Heevett. Troth and Right Cod and onr Country. •(MEET ME TO-MORROW-" I Thus said one man to another in the street yesterday—"meet me to-morrow." They stood with their hands clasped, lookinghope fully each into the other's face, as if the flush of the morrow they waited for already crown ed them with its radiance. But the utter anoe of these words, they broke asunder, each going his own way—who shall say that they maynot clasp bands again on 'he upper 6tand to-morrow. •' Meet me to- morrow !" It is to-day now. The sunlight gleams around us, the birds chant their songs above us, the brooks bubble at our feet. Flowers are kneeling atour path side. Hope nestlsa in our hearts. Love 1 leans upon our arms, whispering sweet words s ; we walk together. But with all we are not happy; there is a spectre standing in our path, with finger lilted, as if beckoning down calamity opon us. It is the morrow; and however sweet the music, however grand the I light, however fragrant the perlome, we can [ not put away the thought that when to-mor row comes it will be to-day again, and tbe ! mantis of futurity will have dropped one j more fold——one more of its dense, dark folds i around our pathway. ' "Meet ine 10-raorrow." These are the "ok/* lO words; they constitute a sentence, in which shines as a jewel in the tiara of kins aod .""herein Faith gleams as a stsr on thoVirror pf Bra ® word ' ,00 > are these, for they brea he the spirit ol that cour a<*e which defies ail cii;"n"" an . and braT ® B the perils thronging in th." ma ° come. "Meet me to-mor;oW is a eong, n zirelect such as women of the ® HBt 8 ' ! IS joyful days ; it is an assertion of foith, BUcll as the martyrs made even with the bant. er 0 flame wrapped around them. Still, the so.' 1 '? at times hsß a sob in it. Men canno*. always be hopeful—the heart cannot always be glad. Hence is it, that " Meet me to-morrow " is sometimes uttered with tear and trembling, s* that it sounds more like a dirge than a song of hope. " Meat me to-moriew." Time is passing; each hour some hope slips from its string— some golden opportunity is lost forever some new pitfall yawns in our path. Are we preparing for the meeting of to-morrow ? The years do not stop in their career; the blooma ot life do not cease withering from our hearts. Silently but surely we are drift ing on to the unknown shore where the barques of millions before us have dropped their anchors in the boßom of the "still wa ters." Shall we not strive so to live that we may go up fearlessly to the great meeting of the Eternal Morrow; daring, with unblanch ed face, to confront the records of the buried years which shall come up at the resurrec tion call, from their graves along our path, to bear testimony as to our life and conversa tion here below — Newark Mercury. "Meal me to-morrow." The Alma tree. JJi#ub ( uhr tells us, is always filled with blos soms. So is the heart of man who can al ways utter " Meet me to-morrow," in the calm confidence that, come what may, he will be prepared therefor—that, however dark may be the clouds, or however bright the sunshine, wi'.b him alt will be well. Such a man dwells iu a realm brighter and purer than the vale of Uosetia, filled as it was with turtle-doves, for he has great hopes singing ih hip heart continually, whose mu sic equals that of-the angel's, whose fingers are twining around him by day, and by night the symphonies and lha loves of the Holy Ones whose altars are planted on the upper i strand. Orlfithoess Unchristian. Live for some purpose in the world. Fill up the measures of duly to oihers. Conduct yourself so that you shall be missed with sor row when you are gone. Multitudes of our species are living in such a selfish manner that lliey are not likely to be remembered af ter their disappearance. They leave behind them scarcely any traces of their existence, but are forgouen as though bad never been. They are, while they live, like one pebble unobserved among a million on the shore, and when they die they are just like the same pebble thrown into the sea, which just ruf fles tbaaurlace, sink, and is forgotteu with out being missed from the beach. They are neither regretted by the rich, wan ted by the poor, uor celebrated by the learned. Who lias been betler for their life! Whose miseries have they healed?— Whose wants supplied? Who would unbar the gate of life to re-admit them to existence, or what faee would greet them, back to out world with a smile? Wretched, unproduc tive mode of existence! Selfishness is its own curse; it is starving vice. The man who does no good, gets none. He is like the heath in the desert, neither yielding fruit nor seeing when good cometb ; a stunted, dwarfish, mis erable shrub. PRIDE. —A proud man ia a fool in fermen tatioa, awelling and boiling like a porridge pol. He seta hie feathers like an owl, to swell and seem bigger than be is. He is troubled with an inflammation of self-conceit, that renders him the man of pasteboard, and a true buckram knight. He has giren him self sympathetic love-powders, that works upon him to dotage and transforms himself into bis own rnistrss, making most passionate conrl to bis own dear perfections, and wor shipping his own image. All his upper stores are crammed with masses of spongy sub* stances, occupying much space; as feathers and cotton will stuff cushions better tbau things of mora coropaol and solid propor tion. OT Always earn before you spend, and I keep a balanca in your puree. A Fusbloaoble Belle at Saratoga. Saratoga is a magnet, drawing with magio force, thousands from usery part. Some come here to contemplate, to reverie, and to write; others to grasp a chance in the lottery of life; while others are here to admire and to be admired. Time is wasted in dissipa tion, and the study is how to dispose of it.— Let us see how a fashionable belle passes the day. She generally rises ebont 9 o'clock, A. M., takes a half hour to array herself in her morning robes and arrange her loiffeur, then she perhaps goes to the Springs, B nd drinks mineral water, tumbler after tumbler, till it ■s impossible to swallow mors—it is her am bition to have drank more than her neigh bor; then she returaseo hsNkfast, and satis fies her delicate appetite by eating a half broiled chicken, a small beefsteak, an ome let, some milk toast, roll and coffee; and then she is ready to make a conquest of the first mechanical body that wears a vest, Then she rolls ten-pins for an hour, in order to give hersel! color; then returns home to jlrbss for dinuer; two hours are generally taken for this; at the sound of the bell or the gong, she sails in all her dry goods into the dining hall. The greater the expense of dress, the greater the style, the farther it drags behind, the more you must admire her taste. When she is seated she casts her eyes up and down the table to see the effect she has produced, then calmly prepares to do justice to the ma; terials before ber. Fashionable belles are always fine epicures : they can instantly de tect the difference between a tame or a wild duck. One hour and a half is spent iu din ner, and then for a promenade and arrange ment ii.to couples. Then is the time when all will pass under observation; every false diamond will be detected ! no bachelor but Wl 'U be discovered, ifhe bave a wig or not; a rt>ug' e <J face will be scanned tilt the natural color wilt' outvie the artificial; an unnatural tooth, a gijss eye, a wooden leg, blind peo ple, rheumatic people, deaf people, lame people, padded poodle- Ten-penny calicoes cannot pass muster as silks, and imitation lace must be put down, ou nlusl ru P 'fie gauntlet, and every flaw wili/* 8 ' 11 al "f B P tea d itself, and become large in your own eyes. If you bave been discovered silt.'ng - a 8 cor * ner with a companion, especially if you have been whispering low, you will be surely pointed at. The belles—Saratoga belles rule here, and you must submit to custom with out complaint. The belle now eats ber lea, and then she enters the ball room, and be tween fiirllition and dancing, she passes through the day and evening. This is the routine of life, admirably adapted to dyspep tic constitutions. — Cor. of llie Missouri Repub. Editorial Life In California. A Sail Francisco paper gives us the follow ing in reply to a correspondent, who assured his readers that editors in California were rather peaceably inclined : "In order that we may mote fully demon strate the manner in which a California edi tor passes his time, and the pleasing inci dents that daily occur to him, we will sketch a brief outline of his duties and the style in which he executes them every twenty-four hours. First—gets up in the morning at ten o'clock ; dresses himself, puts on his hat, in which are six or seven bullet holes, and goes to a restaurant for breakfast. After breaklast, •tarts for the office to look over the papers, and discovers that he is called a scoundrel in one of them, a liar in another, and a puppy in another; lie 6miles at the pleasing pros pect of having something to do; fills out and despatches three blank challenges, a ream or two of which he Rlways keeps on hand, ready printed, to save time; commences writing a leader, when as the clock strikes eleven, a a large man with a cow-hide in one hand, a pistol in the other, and a bowie-knile in his belt, walks in and asks him if his name is ——; he answers by knocking the intruder down two pair of stairs with a chair. At twelve o'clock, finds that his challenges have been accepted, and suddenly remembers that he has a little affair of that nature to sel -1 tie at the beach that day at three o'clock; goes out, kills bis man, then comes in and dines on slewed grizzly. Starts lor the of fice, and while going there gels mixed up in a street row, and has the heel of his hoot shot off by acoident; laughs to think how beautiful it was done;arrives at his sanc tum, and finds an 'infernal machine' upon the table; knows what it is, and merely pitoes it out of the window; writes an article on 'moral reform,' and then starts for the theatre; is attacked oil the corner of a dark alley bv three men, kills (Wo ol them, and takistne other to Ljie station house. Re turning to the office OTtlajpn o'clock at night, knocks a man down who attempts to rob' him, kills a dog with a piece of paving (lone, gels run over by a cab, and has the tail ol his ooat slitted with a thrust from a knife, and two bullet-holes put through his beaver as he steps within his own door; smiles at his escape; writes until two o'clock,and then 'Uimi in,' with the happy consciousness of having two duels to fight the next day. No wonder that California editor* are objects of jealousy. Hereafter our eastern cotempora ries will please do ns the justice of behaving no correspondent who may intimate any thing at variance with conclusions which may be drawn from the above picture." CP* Moderation, decorum ar.d neatness distinguishes die gentleman: be is, at all limes,affable,difljdent,and eindioue to please. Intelligent and polite, his beharionr pleasant and graceful. Appear only to be a gentle man, and its shadow will bring upon you contempt ; be a gentleman, and Ua honors Wilt remain even after yon ere dead. From the Medical Reformer. NAME OF REFORMERS. BY PROF. 1. M. BUZZELL, M. D. It is evidently quite a difficult task for all the various classes of Medical Reformers, or thoso claiming the name, to harmonise upon the choice of an appellation, whereby they shall be called. The grand difficulty lies in n want ol' agreement upon a Medi cal Platform, or in adopting a system of practice upon which all can unite. All who differ in any respect from the Allopath; ic School, claim to be Medical Reformers. Now if these various systems of practice differ materially in principle, although all Medical Reformers may sympathise in their opposition to Allopathy, it is difficult to se lect any one name that shall be significantly expressive of all the systems of practice, pursued by the various practitioners iu each, unless we string together all the several names assumed by each class of Reformers, into a kind of "rope walk" appellation, with here and there an alias, so that the public shall not forget what " manner of persons " we were, or of what elements the coalition (and it could be called nothing else) was formed. In the organization of a Christian Church, it is usual to embody togethersuch members as entertain similar views of religious faith, or who concur in respect to the distinctive principles of faith, entertained by the de nomination to which it shall belong. In fact the distinctive principles of the church, designate its denominational character. 1 regard it therefore as impracticable, und I think also unnecessary for the various classes of medical reformers to seek for any one name by which they may be called, while they severally adhere tenaciously to their different systems of practice. Such as employ vegetable medicines ex clusively in their practice, may properly be called Botanic*. Such as use water only in the treatment of all diseases, may with equal propriety be denominated HYDROPATHB.— And so on. While those who choose to avail themselves of all the innocuous agents furnished by the Almighty, upon the facb and in the bowels of the earth, wi h tho ele ments air and water, with heat and cold, in short such as conforming strictly to Physio logical and Chemical laws, explore the universe of nature, proving all things and | folding fast only to that which is good, who hinpropriate to themselves all that science has developed and observation and experi ence tu'Ug' lt a " P ast ages, and who may also avail thcrwwlvoo of oil Unptovcmcnto in the future',-" the treatment of dis ease in its diversified forms, may with propriety be callet.' h KCTIC- . And with this latter clhss I rejoiu" to stand. Here lies the whole world before it' 6 - Hero science and unbiased investigation,. J' ea common sense, have free scope. Here f.Here is no particular ism or fathy to advocate or defend. Here there is no particular man to canoi.'ise, because of some new ideas ho may hav.e advanced, but all medical reformers are re spected forthe knowledge they have obtained and diffused, by faithfuland patient research, and the sum of all their observations and experienced treasured up; and Ire re light is received from every point of the medical compass, not as through a small aperture through tho walls of a darkened room, but as the plentiful sunlight of refulgent day. I am for neither Paul, Appollos or Cephas. I am not for menbutprinciples; for ihebest means .and method of curing disease and mitigating human suffering. And to follow any one system adopted by medical reform- I ers, and using the Jiinited means in tho treatment of disease included in it, may satisfy others, but there is hardly "elbow room " room enough for me, in such a policy as this. It would be as difficult, for instance, to mako mo believe that the system of practice instituted by Dr. Samuel Thomson, is ample and complete, or that it is ade -1 quately adapted to answer all the indications of disease, or that Hydropathy is physiologi cally Huited to every variety of disease, as that " Radway's Ready Relief" is a " sovereign specific " for all diseases, or that some one religious sect •mbraces all the Christianity there is in this great world. Well now hero wo Reformers are, un mistately divided in theory, or if not theroy, in practice. What shall we do ? This we can do. We can harmonise together in the great work of mediealreform, not urging any particular system of practice to the exclusion of all others, but exercising charity and good will towards each other, and also towards our oppononts ; or in other words, we can harmonise Eclcclitally, as do tho various re ligipus seqts,—harmouiso as christians. We need not contend with each other. We should not contend. We are all professedly engaged in the great work of medical reform. We are laboring not only for our selves, but for posterity. And if truth is our object, we shall ultimately arrive to the goal where observation and unbiased investigation must and will load us, viz., to the use of the best means of all pathies or systems, in the treat ment of disease, and the alleviation of human suffering. The fact is, there are good filings in all pathies or systems of medical practice. Every new system has developed some valuable principlo or dis covered some important means orappliance, worthy of regard by all such as desire to bo useful in the medical profession. And why not avail ourselves of all important princi ples of all valuable remediesthat experience has proved to be safe and efficacious, not suffering o,ur minds, to bo warped by preju dice like the religious bigot, in favor of some particular system, we must at all hazards advocate and defend. In the allopathic sys-1 tern of practice there aro doubtless many ' errors. And so there may be in the various systems of reformed practice. All need im- 1 provoments—and modification. The new j systems since my recollection have under-1 gone important modifications and changes, j in the hands of their friends, and "yet there i is room." The science of medicine like all , others is progressive. And honest untranj- j elled investigation should be our motto, and j tho mitigation of human suffering and the j .cure of disease our aim. Ho is the fc.fphy- j sician who is the most successful in treat-' merit of disease. Patients think more of the . efficacy of our treatment, than of the oithodoxy ' of our medical creed. By the foregoing remarks I would now bo understood as being iu the least opposed to an union of all reformers of medical practice, iu an organization for the mutual improve ment and benefit of all, and for the advance ment of rnedjcal science. It would seem however that the first step to such an union, 1 will ho to agree upon soino - platform" j upon whidh all can unite. Tho principles embraced in it would indicate the name.— ■ We should defer naming tho child until it is horn. It will be in good season to name it then. In the mean time it is necessary that we should cultivate kindly feelings towards each other. No good cause is advanced by j unkinducss or abuse. If wo would have \ frionds we must show ourselves friendly.— If we would be respected, we must respect others. If wo have more true light than ! others, we should be tbaukful lor it and let it shine. We need not boast, for the intelli gent public will appreciuto our skill and publish our success, if we merit their ap proval. 1 um glad that a proposition for uc union to bo effected, between tho National Eclec tic Medical Association and tho Middle States Reformed Medical Society, has been made, a platform suggested, and a committee appointed to carry the proposition into effect. Medical reformers havo ouly to concentrate their influence and unite their efforts, and the glorious work will go speed ily onward. , Portland, August SStli, 1855. " The Yellow Fever lii Virginia. We arc extremely grieted to leatn the great extent to which our brethern of Nor folk and Portsmouth have suffered from the extremo virulence of that great curse of our southorn cities, Yellow Fever. While we deeply regret the cnuso that has given rise to it, we cannot refrain from woticirg some of the ever to be commendable philanthro pic actions thAt have boen incited by the suffering of our southern brethern as well as to censure the selfish ignorance and barbar ity that has been exhibited toward them by the inhabitants of the towus and vilages in their immediate vicinity. The noble gener osity with which many distant communities and especially of our opulent cities— have responded to the calls of distress front i the afflicted cities,is worthy of the highest cojuendfition. While- gold has flown freely from their coffers, food from their well fur nished marts, t.wedicine from their stores, and all kinds .of "m'denial aid" from their hands, as well as sympathy from their bo soms, all in the most generous abuudauco, and while members of the medical pro fession and experienced nurses from ilia hospitals have not faltored to volunteer their aid, with their lives, and in some instances folly offered them up without hope of fee or reward, except that which results from the ctffcsciousness of doing good to their follow men, others, and that too of the immediate neighbors of the ulljicted have refused ref uge and an asyluiu to those who fled, help less and forlorn, to them for succor and as sistance. Such cominuuities should receive the well deserved cunkure of all mankind.— In contrast with such barbarous meanness how noble is the generous act and language of the Hon. licury A. Wise inviting the ter ror stricken inhabitants of the doomed cities, to come and share' tho hospitalities of the generous citizens of "'old Aiuwtco 1" lu extenuation it may be plead that "self preservation, the first law of naturo'-'justilied such barbarity; but there is not wanting a bundant evidence to prove, time the disease with which our friendß of Norfolk and Ports mouth have been visited is positively not contagious. and all intelligent men ought to bo aware of this fact, and so ought, at least, the medical men of tho towns in which such barbarous actions occurred,- and their ad vico would doubfless liavo proved sufficient to have prevented it. When this form of disoaso is so well known to be non-coutagiaus, why also will tho authorities of our cities continue to es tablish stringent quarantine regulations a gainst vessels arriving from the infected port? Will such absurd and antiquated no tions always govern in what ought to be in telligent sanitary committees? We aro sor ry that the chief oily in our own. State has disgraced herself by such a course. In rela tion to tho treatment of this precise form of disease wo freely acknowledge that we have no clinical experience, but from tho philosophy and nature of it as well as from our euccesp in treating ma lignant bilious fover, which Is quite an alogous to it, wo cannot but think, that un der proper treatment, timely and persever ingly applied, the awfol mortality that every where accompanies it, might be greatly les sened. Such was tho result of the reformed treatment in Louisville, luet year; and we shall look with much interest for the report iof the anti-poison physician# who we I known to be engaged in practice in Norfolk. —Medical Rsfbrmsr. [Two Do lars per Anna* NUMBER 39. | ' .M KltK'A I. SU3I.IIAII Y, Students, and all concerned, will please , remember that the Lectures in the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania,commence ! on Wednesday, the 17th of this month.— j The " Medical Chronicle," of Monlffeal, states that there is a_young girl about 17 or 18 years old, belongnigto a very respectable I family of that place, who has for about three j months tuken no food whatever It is es timated that there are between fifteen hun- I dred and two thousand homeopathic physi j cians in the United States.—At Adrian, ! Michigan, a tape-worm, nirttly feel in Itngtk, hus been taken from the intestines of a wo- I man.——Paul Dubois, the eminent Parisian accoucheur, has adopted a child that be re ] cently brought into the world by tho Ceeea ; rian operation. There is a woman in N. Y. 23 years old who is the mother of four children, the oldest of whom is 12 years— the age of the mother at its birth!— There lias been a new Hospital established in tho city of New York called the " Jews' Hospi tal," having been planned and erected by tho munificence ana voluntary contributions of members of the Hebrew faiths— The wife of Poster Evoy, of Newfiold, N. Y.. gave birth to four living children—three girls and ; one boy—weighing five pounds and three ! ounces each, on the 22nd of July.—-The ; Cholera has made its appearance in various parts of tho West. Dr. David Calkins—a ; brother of bur "contributor''—died of Chol , era at St. Louis, on tho morning of the 22nd of July ——Abbott Lawrence, the Boston | millionaire, is dead. The Yellow Fever ; is raging fearfully at Norfolk and Portsmouth, | Ya. Dr. Arnnud. the physician to Napo \ leon. oh the Island of St. Helena, died ro j cently in England. The internal use of j chloroform, in small doses, is considered a ' j specific in hiccough. Vaccination was | performed upon 44.652 men in the Russian [! army during the year 1853: and of the whdlo ' reevaccinatroti, 28,329 lmd the regular vac . cine eruption, 5,933 had an irregular orup ; tion, and 7,664 had none at all; in tho same I year 106 eases of varioloid, 25 cases of | chicken pox, and 7 of small pox occurred 'in the army. Dr. I'. Smith, ol Leeds, states ! that out ol 60 cases of frost-bite that came ! under his notice, in the Crimeu, only three i escaped death; 47 sunk or died in the most miserable agony. While in the French \ army 300 recovered out of 803 cases.—— j The great naturalist, of France, j says that the rule for all animals respecting I the period of their existence, is five times | the period they require to mature from birth. 1 The next course of Lectures in the Pens. ' Medical University of Philadelphia, begin ( on tho 10th day ot this month.'— Medical Ri j former AUTUMN HINTS. Autumn is now upon us. Tho days axe being very sensibly shortened, and though very warm during raid-day, the mornings and evenings are chilly and damp, which variation of temperature makes this season of the year, especially in warmer olinnu and moist locations of country, strongly pre disposed to bilious remittont, and inter mittent fevers, etc. Moist air, when associ ated with intense solar heat in the day, has a very prejudicial effect upou the animal economy by preventing transpiration both from the lungs and skin. The senses ate dull, and there is a general languor and de bility of the entire machinery. This condi tion is readily converted into violent fever if, in conjunction to the external dopressing causes, there be imprudence in eating and drinking, or m. exposure to the chilly night air, especially do wo observe this to be so during autumn time, at the mouths of rivers, in low alluvial soil, and near partially dri#d mill-ponds. The atmosphere is more or less stagnant, and the moisture during tho night is associated in the form of dew, with a sud- I'den reduction of leruperature, and hence contributes powerfully to chill the whole frame and depress the powers of life. Where vegetation is rank and luxuriant, or the sur face of.the ground wet, without being cowl ered with water, the moisture of the air is, mfist abundant, uml the difference between i the temperature of the fttiy and uight the greatest . .. a . I *1 As our space is I united, we shall not ex tend our remarks, but for the present shall conclude with a few observations upon The hygieuic means of prevention.— These are obvious: they consist in avoid ing the mid-day sun if intense, and of guard ing against the chilling influence of the cool currents of night air. Change the under clothing on retiring, and have the skin well rubbed with a coarse towel. If persons mtuJ be out during the evening or night, they should keep themselves in movement, for should they stop and spoud an hour or Jwp in conversation in the open air they would make themselves liable to get sick; but should they be foolish enough to sit down during litis time, or insane euough to go to sleep, they would most likely be attacked, in twenty-four hours, with a violent chill followed by regular bilious fever. In short, the morning and evening dew, and the un repelled blaze of our autumn noons, must alike be avoided as detrimental to health. "Fly, if you can, these violent extremes Of air; the wholesome is nor moist nor dry." Suitable apparel should be worn—such we mean as tend to keep an equal tempera ture of thVbody by preventing the shocks produced by the srtdden changes of the at mosphere. Flannel next to the skin is ben | eiiciat in this point of viow. So too, should there be prudence in-diet, avoiding that which tends to tire '.he stomach without giv ing sufficient nourishment.- Mid. Reformer ty The effect of mental disquietude in producing dyspepsia, ia fat greater than ia supposed. It is well known that persons in good liealih, of sound ri&wuive organs, who take pleniy of exereiw> anxiety, may oat uiraflst anything, and its quantities which wou'd kill those in differ ent circumstances. > K3T InnocencoTs a'flo'wer which withers when touched, but.blooms not again though watered with tears.
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