THE STAR OF THE MORTH. Hi Wearer, Proprieter.] VOLUME 8. THE STAR OF THE NORTH TT PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING BY R. IV. WEAVER, OFFICE— Up stairs, in Ihtnew brick build ing, on the south side of Main Street, third square below Market. TERMS : —Two Dollars per annum, if paid within six months from the time of sub scribing ; two dollars and 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 limes for One Dollar and twenty-five cents for each additional in sertion. A liberal discount will be made lo those who advertise by the year. ORiGiNAiT POETRY. J or the "Star of the North." MOURN NOT WHEN I'M DEAD. Mourn not when I'm dead, But plant o'er my head A tree that in summer will bloom ; If ye come where I lie, For the dead ye may sigh, But shed ye no tears o'er my tomb. When my body ye lay 'Neath the cold heavy clay, Sing a hymn in a low, mournful tone. Softly lay me to rest: Place the sods on my breßst, And leave me lo slumber alone. Then when I am dead Weep not o'er my bed, But rejoice that my spirit Ins flown ; And believe I'm at rest In the Isnd of the blest, Where sorrow and tears are unknown. Oh! welcome the grave, Since Ihe Lord Jesus gave His life as a ransom for ours: His love will us cheer Through Death's valley so drear, And strew the tomb sweetly with flow'rs LILLIAN. Hemlock, Col. Co , Pe.. Lite Am-jug the iliormuus. We stated last week that we hail received a long letter from a person named Parrot, re siding in Bristol, in whichhe detailed his ex perience among the Mormons, which sect he had left with the greatest digust. This per- ! son's statement, tho accuracy for which is i vouched for by the Rev. J. B Clifford, is to ! the effect that some time since he became entangled in the meshes of Mormonism \ through the influence of a 'leader,' a most ! pleasing and fascinating man, who introdu ced the subject to him, and lie was led lo join j a church which met at Milk Street. For a tims he was perfectly rnchanled with the system, and with his wife and children was' preparing to leave his home and take his de- , parture for the settlement on the Salt Lake. j At first he observed the strictest sanctity in 1 their public services and movements, but af- 1 ter a while their real character began lo de velop itGelf, as he says "in Ihe most Satanic | manner." After honestly watching their pri- ' vate and public actions, and carefully observ- , ing their principles, and having been, by the ptiest, lavored "to attend one of their secret council meetings held evary Monday night, when they secretly concoct their hellish and i diabolical purposes lo entrap the innocent," j he determined to withdraw from them, and j on the 18'h of March last he wrote a note lo the pastor requesting to be excluded from the i "ohurch." For this course of conduct he was publicly anathematized in the following ; language "May his eyes sink in their sock-; eta; his flesh rot and fall Irom his bones: ' may-he wish to die, but not be able; may i his right arm wither ; may he beg his bread, j but none be given to him." Mr. Parrot stales that Brigbam Young, the present head of the Mormons, has now about twenty women whom he denominates as his wives, besides the keeping of the wives of the missionaries while they are away on missions for five and seven years together, and he instances the case of an "elder" or "priest," who has just been removed from Cheltenham for having seduced twenty young women. The Mormons now number, in officers, as fol- 1 lows: 3 presidents,7 apostles, 2080 eeventres, 715 high pries'.s, 514 ordinary priests, 471 1 teachers, 227 deacons, 331 missionaries, al together 4345 trained officers or black spitits, ready for anything their leader, Brigham Young, has for them to do.' Mr. Parrot states in conclusion that the real object of the Amer ican Mormon leaders called priests, in their 1 mission to the United Kingdom, is, nnderthe j mask ofreligiun, to recruit men, women and I children, for the purpose of raising an army to carry the Book of Mormon by the sword and fire into Ihe present peaceful States of Ametica, ol which army Brigbam Young, like a aecoud Mahomed, is to be the king. The men, ou leaving England, are expected to provide themselves with a six-barrelled -•evolver a Minie title, a sword and a large knife, under Ihe pretext of killing buffalo, while the women are taught toTfialro bullets, The Mormon* intend to call tb their aid the neighboring disaffected powerful tribes of Indians around Utah to assist them in del uging the States in rivers of blood.— Bristol (Eng.; Times. ASTRONOMICAL —'Tht the light of the stars proceeds from self luminous bodies, is prosed both by its intensity and by direct experi ments in popularization; that these bodies •re composed of matter like (hat of which oar sun ie composed, is shown by Its obey ing the same law of gravitation,as is espec ially proved by the binary stars, which re volve about a common centre of gravity in conformity with that law ; that many of them at least, are bodies of immense size, is evin ced by the amount of light whioh, at suoh a vast distance, they send to the earth. The planet Sirms is asserted on the highest an tbority to omit as much light as 63 suns like onrs. BLOOMSbURG, COLUMBIA COWTm., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 18. 1856. THE GERMANS OF PENNSYLVANIA BY THE REV. E. W. HUTTER. So deeply is the State of Pennsylvania in debted for her prosperity to the German por tion of her citizens, that we feel that an ar ticle devoted to them will not be<out of place in this meridan, where they comprise so large a part of the population. The German characteror.ee employed the pen of the learn ed and enlightened Tacitus, one of the first historians of antiquity. They evidently in herit all the virtues ascribed by this author to their ancestors, with few of their vices, which Christianity has in a great measure banished from among them. These ances tors migrated chiefly from the Palatinate, from Alsace, Swabia, Saxony, and Switzer land, with an admixture of na'ives of every principality and dukedom in Germany.-** When we refleot, at this day, that the slock of most of these bold pioneers in the settle ment of Pennsylvania, consisted only of a few pieces of gold or silver coin, a chest of clothing, a Bible, and a Psalter, and that now their descendants are scattered nearly over the whole West, and own the most im mense possessions, we are forcibly struck with the miraculous changes wrought in the progress of lime bj an Overruling and Di vine Hand. If it were possible to determine the relative proportions of these sums, the contrast would from such a monument of human industry and economy as has seldom been witnessed in any age or country on the face of tho earth. The principal part of ihe Germans of Penn sylvania are Farmers—hardy and industrious tillers of the soil—the most noble of all the secular occupations which can engage the attention of man. More skilful cultivators of the earth, too, we hazard nothing in say ing, can be found r.owhere in this country, or any other, between the rising and setting ol the sun. The Germans set a great value upon patri monial property. This useful principle in lit)man nature prevents much folly and vice in young people. Il moreover leads lo lam ing and extensive advantages in the improve ment of a farm; for what inducement can be stronger in a parent to plant an orchard, lo preserve foiesl Irees, or lo build a commodi ous aod durable house, than the idea, that they will be possessed by a succession of generations, who shall inherit his blood and name. What strikes a traveler through our Ger- j man counties most forcibly, is their mam-1 moth barns, called in their own language "Schweilzer Scheuer. Indeed, it is their in- j variable custom, in settling a new tract of land, first to piovide large and suitable ac commodations for their horses and cattle, before they expend much money io building a house for themselves. No feature in their character speaks so loudly in behalf of their humanity, as this willingness to suffer dis- j comfort themselvesr rather than impese it on the dumb and uncomplaining beasts. They believe with king Solomon, that "a righteous man regardeth the life of his beast." But from this let it not be inferred, that their dwellings are deficient in the comforts of life. The reverse is "on the fat of the land," — and none boasts of so many and such sub stantial domestic enjoyments. Another fact, which never fails to rivet the attention of a stranger, is the extraordinary size and strength of their horses. A Ger man hoise is Known in every part of the Slate He seems to -'feel with his lord" the pleasure and pride of good and bountiful liv ing. It is a well established fact, that tho German horses of Pennsylvania perform double the amount o! labor of Ihe New Eng land or Southern breed, from the fact that they are more plentifully fed. For Ihe same reason, their cows yield double (be quantity of milk, and of a quality vastly superior. Jn a word a German farm can be dislin- j guished from ihe farms of lire other citizens, j by the superior size of llreir barns—the plain i but compact construction of their dwellings ; —lhe height of their enclosures—the extent of their orchards—the fertility of their fields, Ihe luxuriance of their meadows—the giant strength of their cattle—and by a general ap pearance of plenty and prosperity in all that belongs to them. The favorable influence of Agriculture, as ' conducted by the Germans, in extending hu man happiness, is manifested by ths joy they ! express upon the birth ol a child. No dread ' of poverty, nor distrust of Providence from j an increasing family, depresses the spirits of' these industrious and frugnl people. Upon the birth of a son, they exalt in the gift of a ploughman or a. wagoner, and upon the birth , of a daughter, they rejoice in tht addition of ; a spinster or milk-maid, to their family.— ! Happy state of human society! What bless ings nan civilization confer, that can atone ' for the sncient and patriarchal pleasure of! raising up a numerous and healthy family of children to labor for their parents, for them selves, and for their country; and finally to partake of Iho knowledge and happiness which are to existence, both in Ihe lile lhal now is, <ond in thai which is to come. The joy of parents upon the birth of a child, is the grealfol echo' of creating goodness.— May the hills and vfelleys of Pennsylvania be forever vocal with Songs of joy upon these occasions! They are the infallible signa of comparative innocence, absolute industry, wealth, and happiness ir. the State. The German Mechanic, too, is a most use ful and enterprising citizen, possessing all the traits of charaolsr in common with the Farmer. His first ambition, on slatting into life is to become a Freeholder, so a* r.ot to live in a rented bouse—and the highest tem poral delight he can enjoy springs from bis ability -lo declare: ''This house is my otcn." Admirable quality that, which renders him afraid of Debt, that prolific source of Misery, and Want, and Crime! "The borrower is servant lo the lender." "Owe no man any thing, except to love him." But the genius of the Germans of Pennsyl vania is not confined to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. Many of them have ac quired great wealth, 100, by foreign and do mestic commerce. But another fact-, which speaks louder in Ihetr praise, than any other, is this, that they are particularly attentive lo the religious ed ucation of their children, and to the estab lishment and support of the Christian Relig ion. For this purpose they make the erec tion ol a School-house and a Place of Wor ship the first objects of their.care. But they do not slop here. They take great pains to introduce in their offspring, not only habits of labor, but a love of it. In this they sub mit lo the irreversible sentence pronounced upon man, in such a manner as to convert the wrath of Heaven into piivate and public happiness. "To Fear God and to Love Work" are the first lessons they teach lo their child ren. As members of Civil Government, 100, the Germans are, in the most exalted sense, pa triotic and useful. Strongly attached to the principles of our free institutions, and con tributing largely to the public revenue, they constitute the "bone and sinew" of the Stale. Many of them have become eminent in the Science of Government, and they have fur nished some of our most distinguished States men, who have served iiithe highest Exec utive and Legislative offices. We will be content with refprerce to a single illustrious example, the revered Simon Snyder, whose name has become the very synonyme of sterling sense, unflinching honesty, and far seeing sagaciiy—and whose administration of the Chief Magistracy of Pennsylvania, fot a priod of nine years, is referred to, at Ihe present day, by men of all parlies, as a very model of good government. : The Germane of Pennsylvania, to their cred- ' it be it spoken, uever be-iege the Govern ment for favor- in their domestic pursuitir— They are never known to crowd the legisla tive halts clamorous for special privileges, and rely for wealth and prosperity, not on Acts of Assembly, but on their own daily j toil and industry. They are, perhaps, the , only class ot people who practically regard government, its objects and its functions, in i their true light. All that they desire from j Government js to be let alone. As neighbors, they are extremely kind, ; and friendly. They frequently assist each other by loans of money for a short lime, without interest. But, to secure their confi dence, it is necessary to be punctual, as they never lend monpy a second lime to one who has once violated his obligation. We have heard it remarked, that during the War of Independence there were very few instances of any of them discharging a bond or a debt, in depreciated proper money. These are some of the traits of character | which have raised the Germans of Pennsyl- j vania to a degree of moral and political ele vation surpassed by no other race of men in the world. Ftoin this proud spectacle we | may learn to prize knowledge and industry I in Agriculture, coupled with a due obser- ' vance of Christian duty, as the basis both of domestic happiness and national prosperity. COMMON SENSE ON SLAVERY. H. M. Breckenridgn publishes a communi- j cation in the Pittsburg Union upon the ub- j ject of Sumner and slavery, from which we make the following extracts: I will here put a question to every candid j man, and I will defy him to give An answer, ! that will place any one State of the Union on I a higher .ground than any other on this sub-! ject of the slave trade. It is clear, that it was left in the power of each Slate to prohi bit the slave trade within its own limits.— And was this done, bv any one, or all of them? We know in point of fact, that Mas sachusetts and Rhode Island, especially the latter, were actively and lucratively engaged in the slave trade down to 1808 and after! that lime, and that immense sums were real- | ized, now forming a large portion of their j capital. The difference is, that while the j South has retained the slaves, who from bar- ! barous Africans, have become comparatively civilized and humanized, daily better fitted lor freedom, liberated almost as fast as they are fitted to be so—and at the same time, while the culture of cntton, constituting the basis of our commercial greatness.—the cap ital of the North, in part derived from the same source, is equally well employed in i trade and manufactures. The difference is that the South has the negroes and the North the price. In my opinion, those who cry out and abuse either section of the Uotou, on account of slavery, and the fruits of sla very, are alike short sight rebels against the all-wise dispensations o( the Almighty. It has hitherto been, and will continue in future to be, the means of advancing the condition of the blank race, who wiffowe their free dom and their fitness for it to slavery among a humane and christian people. The true point of a view is to compare the present condition of Afrioa and the condition of those who were brought here in slavery, with the present condition ol their descend ants- A greater number are at this day in the enjoyment of freedom, as civilized sod christian men, than the whole number im ported during the continuance of the trade. There is an enlarged philosophical human ity, aa well as a short sighted one. The bon dage of the Israelites in Egypt, was widely ordained. It waa necessary to the formation Truth Mi tight wr Country. of a numerous popalalion, indeed, with the arts of civilization to enable tbem to occupy the chosen land. For our own sake, I should not like to see an importation of Coolies, because not a desirable population ; but lo ihe poor creatures whose lives are now sac rificed by tens of thousands in China, to es cape the torture and death to whioh tbey are at present subjected, servitude would be a blessing. The want of a rule in the Senate, such as that proposed by Mr. Stuart, of Virginia, since the affair of Somner, has become absolutely necessary, unless personal insnlts or offen sive reflections on the States represented, are hereafter lo be resented like other insults in other places. We are told of the clause 1 in the Constitution, that members are not elsewhere responsible for words used in the freedom of deh*te-yifeatjM(%ally responsi ble. lam not legally responsible for calling a man a liar in the street; but I should- be a very mean fellow if I did not knock him down for doing so. One of the severest things said in the Senate lately, was by Gen. Mason, of Virginia—severe because just— "that liberties of speech had been taken on that floor, whieh no gentleman would dare to lake elsewhere." Certainly a gentleman would never nse language to another's face 1 under shelter of impunity, which he would not ase to his face in another place. In my estimation nothing can be more cowardly, especially if spoken when the party was not present to resent it. lam no friend to duel ling, but cannot deny that it has its use in promoting good manners. I regard the Sen ators, especially as the ambassadors of sov ereign States and bound by their relations to i each other, to behave with the utmost respect ! and courtesy, much less to travel out ol the way to seek oppooani:ies fur insult and crim ination, with respect lo each other, or the sovereignties they represent. How long would the recent treaty convention at Paris have continued if one of the Plenipotentia ries had undertaken to assail the despotism and serfdom of Russia? Counto:loffmight perhaps, from s sense of what is due to his associates have sustained himself al the mo ment ; but we cannol doubt but thai he would have held the speaker personally responsible for ihe insult. There is, it must be admit ted, a wide difference in point of sensitive ness between the Souih and the North on these subjects. In the one oare words ere things—in the other, words are only words. This cannot be better exemplified than by an anecdote I have heard of a dispute between a Southerner and a Yankee New Yorker.— "You !tC;sir!" said Tfre YtrtAee. On Hits the Southerner knocked him down. "Why, Mister," said the other, "that's queer—up in New York we'd argy that pint." H. M. BRECKENRHXJE. ABOUT f.UC'K. Henry Ward Beecher, in a recent Lecture, says— I may here, as well as anywhere, imparl Ihe secret about what is called good luck.— There are mer. who, supposing Providence to have an implacable spite against them, bemoan in poverty to a wretched old age ihe misfortune of their lives. Luck forever ran agains' them and for others. One with a good profession, lost his luck in the river, where he idled away his time fishing when he should have been in the of fice. Another, with s.ggpd trade, perpetual ly burnt up his luck by his hot temper, which provoked ail his employees to leave him.— Another with a lucrative business lost his luck by amazing dilligence al everything but his business. Another, who steadily follow ed his trade, as steadily followed the bottle. Another who was honest and constant al his work, errad by perpetual misjudgmenta: ho lacked discretion. Hundreds losejheir luck by endorsing and by sanguine speculations; by trusting fraudulent mea—and by dishon est gains. A man never has good luck who has a bad wife. I never knew an early ri sing, bard working man, careful of his earn ings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck. A good character, good habits and iron in.duslry, are impregnable to the assaults of all the ill-luck that fools ever dreamed of. But when I see a tatter demalion creeping out of a groggery lale in the afternoon, with his hands stuck into his pockets, the rim of his bat turned up, and the crown kicked in, I know he has had bad luck—for the worst of all luck is to be a sluggard, a knave or a tip pler. COMMUNISM DTINO OUT. —Since the expul sion of the Mormons from Nanvoo, Illinois, the site of that town has fallen into the oo cupution ol Montr. Cabet, who, ait the head of a body of French Socialists, entitled the Ica rian Colony, his for ft few years past been endeavoring to put into practice there the principle* of communism. For some time they got on only passably well; but stlength the apple ofdiacord has rolled in and the com munity become so divided that, whilst Cabet himself arid a minority of the colonists are understood to advocate immigration from France, a majority oppose such a course, and directly warn their foreign brethren against risking the chances of much discomfort and suffering, owing to the divided condition ol the colony. it is reported, has been put under military surveillance. That is right. If the citizens cannot govern themselves, as events prove they oannot, they should have some authority over Ibem which will be able to maintain the peace of the territory. They will learn in time to appreciate the value of the liberties they would strike down by vio lence. A Wife In Ecslacy and a Husband In Fidgets. The deed is accomplished. My wife has got a piano, 'and now farewell to content and and the evening papers, and the big cigars that make ambition virtue—oh, farewell ! ADd oh, ye mortal engines.wbose rude throats the immortal Jove's dread clamors counter feit.' But stop, 1 oan't bid them farewell, for one of them has just come. It came on a dray. Six men carried it iutqffie parlor, and they grunted awfully. It weigM a ton and shines like a mirror, and has carved Cupids climbing np its legs. And such lungs— whew! My wife has commenced to prac tice, and the first- time she touched the ma chine I thought we were in the midst of a thunderstorm, and the lightning had struck Ihe crockery chests. The cat, with tail erect took a bee line for a.parlicular friend upon the fence, demolishing a six shilling pane of glass. The baby awoke; the little fellow tried hts best lo beat the instrument, but be did'nt do it—it beat him.- A teacher has been introduced into the honse. He says he is the last of Napoleon's grand army. He wears a huge mustache, looks at me fiercely, smells of garlio, and goes by the name of Count Run away-and never-come-back-againtby. He played Ex trsct de Opera the other night. He run his fingers through his hair twice, then grinned, then cocked his eyes up In the ceiling like a monkey hunting flies, then down csnte one of his fingers, and I heard adelightiul sound, similar to that produced by a cockroach up ion the tennor string of a fiddle. Down came another, and I was reminded of the wind whistling through a knot hole in a hen-coop. He touched his thumb and I thought I was in a peach orchard listening to the braying of a jackass. Now he runs his fingers along the keys, and I thought of a boy rattling a stick upon a picket fence. All of a sudden he stopped, Rnd I thought something had happened. Then came down both flats, and oh, Lord! such a noise was never heard be fore. l'thought a hurricane had struck the house and the walls were caving in. I ima gined I was in the cellar and a ton of coal falling in on my head. I thought the ma chine had burst, when the internal thing slopped and 1 heard my wile exclaim, "Exquisite." "What the deuse is the matter?" The answer was— "Why, dear, that's La Somnambula." ''D n Somnambula,' thought I, and the Count rolled up his sheet of paper. He calls it music, but for the life of me I can't make i: look like anything else, t*-sn a rail fence with a lot of juvenile niggers climbing over il. Before that instiument of torture came into the house I could enjoy myself, but now every darned womsn-in the neighborhood must be invited to hear the new piano, and every time that blasted thing shrieks out, like a locomotive with the bron chitis, 1 have to praise its tone, and when the invited guests are playing I have to say, "Exquisite! "Delightful!" "Heavenly!" and all such trash, while at the same time, I know just as much about music as a codfish. There are more tuning hammers than com fort in our house, and—and I wish the inven tor of the piano was troubled with a perpetu al nightmare, end obliged to sleep in one of his instruments all his life. Ar for myself, 1 had lather put my head tinder a tin pan and be drummed to aleep wi'h a pair of smoothing irons than hear 'La Somnambula,' or any other La thumped out of a piano. Scatter pennies in front of my house, and draw together all the wandering minstrels in the city—hand organs, banjos, fiddles, tambnrines, rattling bones and fish horns. Let the juvenile monkeys crawl in at my windows in search of three cent pieces, let me be awakened at midnight by the cry of "murder!" ring the fire bells and have a devil of a lime generally do all this, and I will not oomplain; but banish the piano.— My piano has got to go. lam going to launch the infernal machine out of the win dow the first dark night, and my friends and neighbors, I advise you to sleep with cotton in your ears, for when she gives her dying grunt, you'll think you've fallen out of bed, or a fallen star has gone to sleep on your housetop. For the information of Young America, I will slate that the pieces of brass wire and ivory keys they are welcome to, but the skeleton I want for a relrigiralor.— Exchange. Good Moral Habits- Lonf John Russell has lately delivered an address in Exeter Hall, London, and we make the following extract from a full report of it in the Loudon Times : Young men in these days, and, for aught we know, in all ages, expect to have moral and religious progress made not only easy, but pleasurable, triumphant and ingenious dignified with theories and sweetened with indulgence. They want a royßl road to im provement—a wide road, a pleasant road, and not very tedious. So Lord John Russell does not hesitate to disabuse them, and he gives them the stern old advice that the only way is to be'found in good habits. Bad pas sions and various inclinations, in one form or another, are the real obstacles to progress, and they are powerful ones. Strong restraint is necessary to subdue them, and that re straint ia to be found only in morality and a good teacher. Good moral habits are the very sinews of the frame, whether that frame be of one mind or of sli society. They are the fibre that makes the very musoles, that forms our solid consistency, that gives ns working power and makes us true men. Ali the talk in the world goes for nothing if it does not end io good moral babita, the want of which is sure to make a clever man a fool, wise reforms nugatory, aod a great na tion profligate and corrupt. Let Heaven send good harvests;—let our cities resound with the hum of factories and the traffio of streets; let the earth be covered with our railways, and the ocean with our ships ; but let the salt of life be wanting—let luxury spoil the rich, and intemperance degrade the poor; let classes be set against each other; let the moral sense be once blnnted by bad habits, and then all that should have been for our wealth becomes an occasion lor fall ing, and cities, factories, raHways, ships, art, science, everything on which we weie lately boasting ourselves, passes over like a traitor to the camp of destruction, and obstructs that moral and political progress df which it seem ed to be the chief moans. Immorality, wheth er public or private, is the onesouroe of mie ohief, and Lord John Russell has read a good lesson lo a self-flattering nd self-indulgent general ion when he points out that nothing is to be done and no progress made without good moral habits. Whether all the yoUng men who beard him last night thought this more than so much sermonizing we know not, but if tbey live long enough they will find it all true, to their pleasure of their oosl. COGITATIONS BY AN OLD roov.—An honest physician is the noblest work of God. Med icine offers more temptations than any oth er profession or calling, to "imposture, to quackery, to snobbishness; in a word, to dishonesty. He who resists all these temp tations is an honest and conscientious man. To the greal public, medicine is a sealed book, an unsolved problem; yet medicine concerns the highest inierests of humanity. The Father of Lies uttered an incontrovert ible truth when he said, "yea, all that a man hath he will give for his life." Because the people are ignorant in regard to medicine they are superstitious in their estimate of its powers; they are superstitious in their estimate of tho qualifications of its practi tioners ; they follow the dictates of com mon sense in regard to every other interest; they judge well of the best blacksmith, the best builder, the bost steamboat pilot, the best engineer. They know how to judge accurately in regard to commercial and po litical intrrests. They even show remarka ble acumen in the discussion of metaphys ics; but of medical men and medical sci ence they are mainly ignorant. Men learn ed in all things else, are fools in medicine. Men to whom all things else in heavon a ml on earth appear familiar, seem but babes in the knowledge of medical men and things. Hence, the eminent jurist, the successful merchant, the distinguished politician, the i eloquent divine, employ as their physician | the ignoratit and designing quack: they have an idea that some persons are born to ] be doctors—that medical skill is an inspira- j tion rather than the result of patient obser-' vation and profound study—a gift rather j than the acquisition of labor and thought. The people are profoundly ignorant of; medical science; hence, the ignorant pre- ! tender successfully competes with the hon- j est roan of science for their patronage and favor. Willi them medicine is a sort of the ology wrapt in mystery beyond the reach of the intellectual grasp. Man is a creature of hope—he never dies. The post-mortem dream succeeds the day dream of life, and even when he is in his grave he hardly re alizes that he is dead at last. He still hipen on. Life on earth, with its refreshing air and its bright suns, and stars, and flowers, and friends, is sweet, very sweet. He die! j no; he will yet live—there are so many ] medicines—so many doctors! There is yet a remedy. Was not such an one, just with the same disease, cured by such a doctor, or such a nostrum ? Why should he not be cured as well as others? The ignorance and the hope of mankind—those are the two great facts on which the vultures of charla tanry have feasted and fattened. These are the foundations on which have arisen the ducal palaces of therapeutical knaves. I pass over the Townsends, the Moffats, the I Perkinses, and such like—nothing better I was expected of them. 1 pass by liomceo palhy, and hydropathy—some of the follow ers of these isms may even be honest. I come directly to the regular old school, and ask myself, are we guitless? Can we say to suffering hufhanity, "shake not thy grey locks at us, for we have always acted in good faith?" Alas, I fear that we are not by any means immaculate. "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." I hope that honest doctors will not bo found so rare as rich saints. 1 doubt not that many may be found: but the igno rance, and the hope of the afflicted—their prejudices and their whims, and the natural cupidity of man, are strong temptations to imposture. Why not give the patient a lit tle medicine ? He thinks that he needs it. If I do not prescribe a drug, ho will apply to another. I will prescribe a medicina men tis, a medicine for the mind. Why not use the speculum vagintß? The patient has heard of it, and thinks her case calls for that very instrument. I will use it every three days: it will do no harm, and its fre quent use will justify a large fee. Though I can see only the os uteri, she will believe that I understand all the mysteries of her disease, when I have "looked through the speculum." The patient has a chronic and acute dysentery—it will inspire him with a remarkable degree of confidence if the phys ician employ the speculum ani. He is dull of hearing—perhaps has been deaf for a quarter of a century—have at him twice a [Two Dollars per Annua* v . DUMBER 22. week, at any rate, with the speculum aurus. | He is blind—bring out the opthalmoscope, and look at the arteria centralis retina: he will believe that you saw the centre of his brain. He has consumption—examine his sputa with the microscope, and tell him'.that you found neucleolated cell, and that he is in no danger, as tubercle is aplastic. He is in the last stage of phthisis, bis very throat is tuberculous—tell him that only the throat is diseased, and that you may have a way of curing that, by applying the specific to the very spot affected—all that is necessary is the probang and a solution of caustic.— Alas, poor human nature! thy love of life, thy credulity, thy faith, thy hope, are mines for the imposter, richer than those of Cali fornia, Australia and Ophir. Thou art blame less, or at least sufferest the penance duo thy faults; but a deep damnation awaits him who would levy black mail on thea, on the verge of the grave—St. Lou it Medical Journal. SMOOXINU IS BHONCHITI-'. —Thos. C— —, of Pittston, Pa., wants to know whether the smoking of tobacco is of use in sore throat and bronchitis? His physician recommend ed it, and for a while it appeared to allay the tickling cough. It is singular that any physician should re commend a course that must ultimately prove only injurious. Its first effects are soothing, and, insidious narcotic that it is, it modifies the tickling and transciently al lays the cough; but alas, the cause produc ing the irritation and the cough will all the while burrow down deeper into the system and wider spread its frightful ravages. The essential characteristic of this disease is in flammation—there is 100 much heat in the parts. Tobacco smoke in the first place is hot; in the second it is narcotic, and being drawn back against the very parts already too much heated its first effect is too increase this heat and thus aggravate the disease, and its second cffoct is to deaden nervous sensibility without at all arresting the pro gress of the inflammation. This insidious ly goes on until it marks the victim as its own. So far from'tobacco smoking being a remedy in these throat difficulties we are abundantly satisfied that its general practice has been one of the great causes producing them. We have known persons to rapidly convalesce on abandoning the practice, and have known others to relapse and speedily' die on resuming it again.— Middle Stales Med ical Reformer. Oca OPINION OP TOBACCO. —Ezra T— , of Webster, Mass:; says be wants to see our opinion respecting the almost universal habit of tobacco chewing. Though treading on sensitive ground we shall not refrain from placing our "opinion" upon record. We view the use of tobacco as a vile, pernicious and expensive habit. It is derogatory to the virtue of personal clean liness, injurious to health and. a perpetual drain upon the purse. Its tendency is to engender debility, imbecility, disease, and premature death. It tends to exhaust and derange the nervous powers, to induce dys pepsia and all i s kindred evils, as it is a re cognized principle in nature, that whatever enfeebles the body must, in the end, and in the same degree, enfeeble tho mind, it reaches the intellect and exerts a ruinous effect upon the mind. Thus affecting body and mind it should be totally abandonod Yet we painfully realize the fact that the habit is on the increase. Oh could those young men who are about learning its use but realize the evils it has in store for them they would turn away with loathing and disgust, and ne'er touch the "vile stuff" again.— Medical Reformer. ABOUT TEETH. —It is a matter beyond doubt that in young children the front teeth are produced at the seventh month, and, nearly always those in the upper jaw first. These are shed in the seventh year, and are then replaced by others. Some infants are even born with teeth. Such was the case with Marius Curius, who, from this circumstance, received the name of Dentatus; and also with Cn. Papirius Carbo, both of them dis tinguished men. When this phenomenon happened in the case of a female, it was looked upon, in the time of tho kings, as an omen of some inauspicious event. At tho birth of Valeria, under such circum stances as theso, it was the answer of the sooth-sayers, that any city to which she might happen to bo carried would be de stroyed ; she was sent to Suessa Pometia, at that time a very flourishing place, but the prediction was ultimately verified by its de struction. Some persons are bom with a continuous bone in their mouth, in the place of teeth; tills was the case with the upper t jaw of the son of Prusias, the king of _ Bithynia.— Dental Advertiser. k DAIIT BATHS.— Thos. M. W—— , of LoeV Haven, Pa., asks, Are daily baths advanta geous 1 - To a certain class of invalids tlfey doubt less are, but to those in the enjoyment of health we cannot advise them—the declara tions of Hydropaths to the contrary notwith standing. Our observation has convinced us that their daily use by persons in health has proved injurious, by depriving them, to a very great extent, of a valuable prophy lactic when they get sick, for notwithstand ing their persistent uso of the bath daily, we have known them to get sick. Our opin ion is that a man who is well—never violat ing any physiological law—should let him self alone. He needs no medicine, nor does he need to be continually scouring him self when he is not sick M*dxel Rtfarmtr.
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