u u - BY S. B. EOW. CLEARFIELD, PA , "WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1859. VOL. 6.TvT0. 7. . BEAUTIFUL STANZAS. Leaf by leaf the rosea fall, Drop by drop the springs run dry ; One by one, beyond recall. Summer beauties fade and die ; But the roses will bloom again, And the spring will gush anew, In the pleasant April rain And the Summer sun and dew. So in the hour3 of deepest gloom. When the springs of gladness fall. And the roses in the bloom, Droop like maidens wan and pale, We shall find some hope that lies Like a silent gem apart, . Hidden far from careless eyes, In the garden of the heart. Some sweet hopo to gladness wed, . That will spring afresh and new, When griefs winter shall have fled, Giving place to rain and dew Home sweet hope that breathes of sp'ring, Through the weary, weary time Budding for its blossoming. In the spirit's glorious clime. ICOPVRIGITT SECURED. I'LEARl'IELD COIT.NTY: OR, REMINISCENCES OF THE PAST. The timber and spar business has brought our merchants in contact with dealers extend cd over a large part of our common country. .Should we estimate the annual product of our forests, in such lumber, at two thousand rafts valued nt over a million of dollars we should fall short of the actual amount. Mills on the Delaware, Karitan, Hudson, Schuylkill, Con necticut derive from our pineries, their prin cipal supply of white pine and oak timber for sawing and such is the caso with the numer ous mills erected on the Susquehanna from Muncy d im to Baltimore. The numerous ship nd boat yards along the coast and at Balti more, Philadelphia and XewYork deiive their spirs ani decking trout ns. Oar forests sup ply the wharf and piling timber and much of the large lumber used in building bridges and other large structures in this aiul adjoining States. Although more or less lumber has, from the origin of the business until now, been annually exported, the trade in square timber and spars was not until 1S12 considered remu nerative. Prior to then it was carried on through necessity. V It was importaut to clear the land that bread might be raised and our population supported and whilst the growing trcs were considered of little or no value, our citizens were satisfied if the pittance they then received for their timber would pay them for the labor of manufacturing and exporting. But a change of policy having given an impe tus to commerce, which called for additional tonnage and also induced an increase in buil ding, a higher store was set on our products and attention was directed towards our forests. The trade which was carried on because it was the best thing which could be done with our trees then became one of the first importance, and men engaged in it as a primary instead of accidental business, and the white pines which were by some considered a nuisance now form ho principal object in estimating the value of nr land. Before leaving this subject let as relate an incident connected with the early history of this trade. It occurred before ma ny rafts had descended. On a small raft des tined for the lower marliet was John Bell, John Bloom and several others. They had reached a point where they considered the danger pas sed and that it was unnecessary to keep so many hands on the raft. Bell, Bloom, and an other left, having provided themselves with a small allowance of bread, sufficient for dinner. The former was the only one who had been down the river and thought himself familiar with the different localities. He acted as guide for the party and assured his companions, on landing about noon, that he knew the route and they would reach Clearfield before night. They struck up on the hill and pursued their course through the woods without a path, fol lowing "the windings of the river until dark, when they encamped for the night. supperless. The next day they continued their tramp and on their way came across a deer which had been slain bra beast of prey. Bell partook of a part of tho meat, but the others being younger than he and better able to stand fa tigue and hunger refused to eat of the raw flesh. The party came to the river several times during the day without finding any trace tf the town they expected to reach the night before, and at sunset after travelling all day without food were compelled to lie out. Tho bird day about noon they again descended the bill to the river when Bell seeing something white in the distance exclaimed that they had passed Clearfield and were near home. He told his companions to sit still and be would go and catch his grey horse and return. On joining them, Bell's companions were disap pointed on learning that be was deceived by a lrgc stone on the bill and that he was not cer tain where they were. When they next came to the river Jney met with a human being Carson, of whom we have spoken was at his future home,a few miles below Clearfield, pros pecting. The first inquiry of the almost fam ished men was as to the amount of his Btock f provisions. It was scanty barely enough o see him through. Bell prevailed on him to furnish him with a small loaf and agreed to send him in return two bushels ot wheat, and as a Bell had agreed to do so, Carson received his pay. That night the party reached Clear field town. In 1818, before oar people were aware of it, a company was incorporated and authorized to ronstmct beotn at Williamspont. The avow ed object of this was to catch such timber, spars, &c, as might be staved in the moun tains, or swept from the moorings during high water; but the real object was to introduce a new system of lumbering known as log-floating," and carry the manufacture of the sawed lumber from the mountain regions to the mam moth mills which hare since been constructed lower down the stream. By some the delay, which it was thought would be caused by the erection ofthe boom, was supposed would be compensated by securing such lumber as might otherwise be lost ; but many have constantly and warmly opposed what they considered an infringement on the rights of the lumbermen. As soon as practicable after the act of incor poration was passed, contracts were made for the manufacture and delivery of sawed logs on many of our smaller streams, and in 1850 the first log-drive was witnessed by our citizens. The floaters and raftsmen came into collision; the latter declaring that the two systems of lumbering were incompatible, that the vast body of logs floating loosely out the stream rendered rafting so risky that it must be aban doned in case log-floating continued. Consid ering that they had the older and better right to the nse of the stream, in some places valu able logs were backed or cut in two and ren dered worthless, and many logs had spikes, old files and other pieces of metal driven into them, which seriously damaged the saws in the gang mills. So determined was the oppo sition on Chest Creek and the main stream that no logs have been floated from above the mouth of Clearfield creek since then. But the floaters had purchased lands and obtained a footing on several of the streams. Those who at first engaged in the business, were irrespon sible men, and for the damages occasioned no redress cculd be obtained. Prosecutions were commenced meetings held, and the Legisla ture memorialized, but without effect. Other boom companies were incorporated and the business increased. In the spring of 1837, the lumbermen on Clearfield creek determined to drive the floaters from tho stream, and a large party, armed with fire-arms, attacked the log men, drove them off, and destroyed their boats and provisions. The attacking party were arrested, convicted of a riot, and pun ished by a nominal fine. SMnce then hostili ties have ceased without any armistice having been agreed upon. As to who were in the right, or what strength there is in the reasons nrged by the advocates of the rival systems of lumberiug, it would not be proper for ns to say in this sketch. Log-floating continues, and is a business of some magnitude the contracts for logs last year amounting in the aggregate to eighty millions of feet, for which were paid to those who delivered them on the bank, about three dollars per thousand feet. The amount of logs contracted for this year will exceed last year's contracts. (TO BE CONTINUED.) "NOT ONE 07 THEI1 AE SOET." The New Orleans Delia tells the following good one: At a session of the Circuit Court of Mississippi, in some country town, the law yers who were in attendance were in the habit of putting up at a house of entertainment kept by a buxom widow lady, of 'a very high sense of propriety, and great dignity ot deportment. This lady always presided at the bead of the table during meals, and the place of honor on her right was regarded as due to the most staid, proper and elderly member of the Bar. By unanimous consent of the lawyers, Col. B., a very modest, discreet, and pious counsellor, was selected for this distinction. Now, tho' possessing many sterling virtues, Col. B. pos sessed one weakness ; but it was not of the head or heart it was of the eyelid. He had the habit of winking incessantly and involun tarily, which, with persons who did not know the cause of it, left an unfavorable impression of the Colonel's seriousness and sincerity, lie was eternally being suspected of what he was the last man to conceive of, to wit a de sign of joking orquizzing everybody, all on ac count of the perpetual motion of bis eyelids. When, on the first occasion, the Colonel took possession of the seat nearest to "mine hostess," his bland and amiable expression and dignified address created quite a favorable impression upon her ladyship. The soup was over, and the hostess began to ply the Colonel with various tempting dishes, all of which he accepted or declined, with a pleasant smile, and with his invariable wink. At last it was perceptible, to the company, that the hostess was eyeing her distinguished guest rather in quiringly and significantly. These glances were always met by the Colonel with his usu al smile and wink. But these amiable dem onstrations were far from producing the ef fect designed upon Madam, who began to frown and look very threateningly at the innocent Colonel, who only smiled and winked the more fascinatingly. Finally, however, to the very great horror of the Bar, and the utter an nihilation of tho worthy Colonel, tho hostess slapped the table indignantly with her right' hand, and fixing her eyes very pointedly and fiercely upon the object of her wrath,cried ont at the top of her voice : "You sanctified, weazen-faced old villain; I'll let you know I'm not one of them ar tort ! ' What might have followed this explosion of wrath, it would be impossible to conjecture, but the unfortunate possessor of the weak eye lids decamped in haste from the post of honor, and never after could be persuaded to act the agreeable to a buxom widow. Sirs. Partington asks, very indignantly, if the bills before Parliament are not counter feit, why should there be such a difficulty in passing them 1 . Thd most economical time to buy cider is, when it is not very clear, for then it will sett's for itself. ' j Dobbs calls Noah Webster an ensbanter be causo of his awful spells. A BRAZILIAN PIC-NIC. BT nON.O. F. BERKELEY. Having attended several of these social out door dinner parties within a few weeks and be ing now pretty well informed as to the "modus operandi" in getting up these anti-aristocratic sylvan re-unions, I must' certainly decide in favor of having tbe.ru r tori fin ued' forever, and will vote, the fifst -opportnaity ' lor Congress, or the city'C0nttcit,. or the clerk of the weath er, to pass aa act to the effect that summer shall be continued for five years without inter mission ; mid at the expiration of that time, if the plan works well, wo can pass a law to have suminet-and pic-nic's reign perpetual. And nowy-as every body in this country knows exactlyrhow the&e,affairs are conduc ted in "Yankeedom,?' and '.as the spirit of im provement is the' spirit "of'the" age,' I have thought : that a description of tho manner of doing the same thing in South America might not be altogether void of interest. I shall select, as my model, a pic-nic at which I had the honor to act as one of the stewards ; and if any one should discover any improvements in the principles upon which it was got up and carried out, they have the ful lest liberty, so far as I am concerned, to adopt them whenever they think proper. It was some time in the month of December, 1813, that ten of us, citizens of Pelotas, a beautiful town situated on the right bank of the Rio Gonzales, in the province of Rio Grande, put our heads together, and our wits to work, ono afternoon,in order to conjure up, contrive, and adopt some plan whereby we should be enabled to kill time, or get killed ourselves for it was terrible tedious times with us, living there with nothing to do, and no disposition to do it we, who for the last six years had been constantly on the wing in the revolutionary service against our legitimate sovereign, DonPedroSegundo,to be thus penn ed up without any kind of excitement, we'd die unless we got up something that would put our blood in circulation. I have said that there were ten of us, and I will now add, that we represented about as many different nations as we did individual specimens of humanity and that we were all either colonels, captains, or doctors, (officers irere plenty in that revolution,) and each of us had a wife, and not much of anything else. Yes we bad each a couple of first rate horses, worth perhaps six dollars a piece, a half do zen dogs, as many "niggers," a prinic rifle, and a pair of choice revolvers. The afternoon session was alout to adjourn without having hit upon anything definite, when Doctor Tom Veinon, whose pretty Span ish wife had relations living somewhere on the Paraguay river, only about a hundred leagues distant,proposes that we should club together, and get vp a regular pic-nic excursion, and have a cruise in the country on horseback. "That's it! Hurrah for Uncle Tom!" we all shouted. "Just the thing. Wouldn't we have a time ?" And away we all scattered to get ready for the cruise. About noon on the following day,wc all met on the Ice side of the old cathedral, men, wo men, "niggers," horses, dogs, and provisions, and proceeded to call a court of inquiry for the purpose of ascertaining if we were all in good sailing order. The result was perfectly satisfactory. There we were ten colonels, captains, and doctors, ten decidedly pretty women,twenty of the blackest kind of blacks, just forty-four horses, and dogs there were more dogs than ever you saw in one flock, I know. We had lots of provisions stowed away in in the huge raw-bide baskets, slung one on each side of our four pack horses ; and then among our other sea-stores we had stowed away a lew dozen bottles of old . You sons of temperance and teetotalers, you can't think how warm 'tis out there. " Why, bless you, we never hear of such a thing as cold water in Brazil. Well, we made sail, and got under way for the cruise of thtee hundred miles, through a country almost a native wilderness, swarming with every variety of reptiles, serpents, and wild beasts, from lb? infernal little niggers to the monstrous puma, and infested with roving bands of runaway blacks, native tribes of fe rocious savages, and hordes of fierce banditti, who robbed for amusement, and murdered for pleasure. - . ' Pleasant, wasn't it ? But then it was nothing to us,wbo had spent nearly six years of our lives on horseback, In those same woods not to ourwiveseither,who were a brace of revolvers in their belts, twelve inches of cold steel under their garters, and used two stirrups to their saddles. Well,we went through in about a week with out accident, except losing a dog, which a young anaconda swallowed for his breakfast one morning, and a "nigger," that a big puma trolled off with for bis supper one evening. However, that was no consequence, as we had dogs and niggers enough. After visiting among all of our friends and some of our enemies along the river, for about six weeks, we set out in high spirits, and with a fresh stock of provisions and bottles, on our homeward bound passage. Tor the first two days the time passed off very agreeably, and we had lino sport running down an ostrich, or shooting an Indian, now and then for the fun of tho thing that is, the ostriches the Indians we only shot to prevent them from shooting us. On the morning of the third day, when we had finished our breakfast, we concluded to have a chase after some forty or more ostriches, which we discovered about half a mile off, and so dispatched six of our blacks with the four pack horses on ahead, with orders to halt on the banks of a small river, which ran along the edge of a broad sandy plain, where we di rected them to have dinner prepared against our arrival. - The distance to the river was about eighteen miles, and we guessed we could chase tho long-legged birds a couple of hours, and then have plenty of time to get through by two o' clock, P. M., which was our usual dinner hour. We chased the ostriches till we caught about a dozen of them, which we. robbed of their tails and let tticm go again. At length we got tired of the sport, and started off at a round gallop after our dinner, and perbrps a taste of something olso, which we remembered was in our leathern lockors aboard the pack horses. At two, precisely, we arrived at the river, but not horse or nigger was there insight. And worse than all, there was no d timer In sight either not a drop of murder I we couldn'tdrink tbatwarm,tislpld wafer.no how. Alter ranging up and down tho ihr for Ave miles each way, and firing guns, shouting like a whole tribe of full-llood Monawks,and ma king all the other noises that we could think of, we turned our horses adrift to get their dinners, while we lay down in the shade for an afternoon's uap, some hungry and rery dry. After about two hours we woke up, and had another hunt for the "darkies," but they wasn't there. Then we concluded that they must have got lost, or run away ; and we knew well enough they hand't got lost. , That night we camped there on the bank of the river, in hopes that the confounded "nig gers" might possibly repent and come back. Not a bit of it. Day-light came, but no "nig gers;" and so we played Indian, drawing our belts a little tighter, and got under way for home. . At a ford, a few miles lower down,we cross ed the river, and here we filled several flasks with water, well knowing that there was none fit to drink for more than forty miles ahead. Our way now . lay across a barren, sandy waste, and we knew that we should be obliged to fast until we reached the eastern limits of this ocean of sand, when we might expect to meet plenty of wild cattle, and stand tolerable good chance of getting a supper of fresh beef. . It was within half an hour of sunset when we reached the edge of a belt of natural mead ow, which lay between the desert and a dense forest beyond. - On this beautiful meadow were hundreds of fine, fat cattle grazing, and we selected a nice heifer, which a rifle bullet soon brought down, when four of us fell afoul of her, and cutting the body in four quarters without removing the hide, each took a quarter before him on his horse, and we all set lor wards for the woods, where we guessed we should make up for our two days' fast. By sunset we reached the forest, and in less than fifteen minutes we had a roaring fire kindled, for we were all hungry, and a lew of us were awful dry. It was funny, though that beef supper, therein tho woods. There we sat round the huge blaze, colonels and women, captains and niggers, dogs and doctors, each with a piece of beef about as big as a North River shad, stuck on a sharp stick, or the points of our long knives, toasting and frying, broiling and eating, with the blood and gravy running down each corner of our mouths like tho red juice from a leaky wine press. Hold on a bit, though I forgot one thing. The dogs didn't hare any knives nor sharp sticks. They took theirs without cooking. - "This is what I call a regular pic-nic,'.' sputtered Doctor Tom, with his mouth full of beef steaks, all but raw. - . . "Ess, by gar! zentlemans and ladee;. it shall be one grand suppare. By gar, we shall cat plentee for four tree day." - "A-r-r-r-o-a-a-o-o-a-r-r !" roared a mon strous tiger, not five rods from us, as if his opinion tallied with that of the last speaker , a little French captain, exactly ; and he'd like to come in. Heavens and earth ! That hideous roar of the hungry tiger set 'cm all agoing ; and all the infernal noises that ever was heard in a Brazilian forest,was at once let loose. Wolves and wild cats, pumas and panthers, together with every other brute that growled, grunted, whined, or whistled, all gave tongue, each strived to emulate the other in his melodious notes. It was a glorious pic-nic serenade, but we wouldn't stop eating. No not if we had been caged with all the tigers and leopards in Brazil. Once in a while we would cast our eyes behind us, and there, just beyond the range of our firelight, sparkled hundreds of bright, flashing eyes, as the savage brutes crowded about us, and snuffed our savory feast. For ten minutes did the horrid screams and discordant howls continue, when all at once an immense puma bounced in among us, and pounced upon a quarter of the heifer which yet remained untouched. "Hold on, old fellow! till I get another slice," said Doctor Tom, at the same time driving his long Spanish knife in between the ribs of the huge brute. 'A haa!" 3-ou dem tief, you sail steal my bif a a," screamed the excited Frenchman ; and down come his fourteen inches of steel, driven home to the very hilt in the monster's throat. In less than ten seconds tho puma had re ceived a hundred stabs from our reeking knives, and to complete-the tragedy, a little Spanish beauty set her revolver going, utterly regardless of the danger we ran of becoming a target for her bullets. The report of that pistol acted like magic on our four-legged friends outside the family circle, for in an instant every brute tongue was hushed as death. We didn't sleep any that night; but vjo made a great supper, for all that remained of our heifer in the morning was a few bones. That day we found our runawey "niggers" and all of us went home very well satisfied with our pic-nic. . Ravages of the Bears ix Wisconsin. Our Wisconsin exchanges continue to be filled with startling accounts of the ravages of the bears. The whole State appears to be swarm ing with these ferocious wild animals, and the inhabitants arc becoming alarmed for their safely. The bears no longer confine their visits to farmer's pig pens, but boldly approach their dwellings and apply for admittance at kitchen doors and bed room windows. Public bear hunts are got up in various parts of the State, for the purpose of driving away the varmints and protecting the inhabitants. The Manitouwoc Tribune thinks the theory that tbey have been driven from the north, by scarcity of food, into tho settlements, is a plausible ono. "Long coat in ued drought and extensive fires have prevented the usual sup ply of mast.und bruin does not object to a dish of corn, a nip of veal, a rasher of bacon, or even a fat baby, when acorns are scarce." A Hideous Reptile. Mr. Samuel nwkins, living in Alt. Crawford, Rockingham county, Virginia, sbot an enormous bull snake recent ly, about a mile from that place, in what is known as Cedar Ridge. The snake was elev en feet in length, and over a foot in circumfe rence. It was in pursuit of a younger brother of Mr. Hawkins, making a kind of bellowing nolso, peculiar to this serpent, when it was shot. Its teeth were an inch in length. A negro being asked if bis master was ft Christian, replied, "No, sir, he's only a raem bcr of Congress!" If ptople "know theniewlve- IVslks Would inak, vry bad Mm-. A "FAST" WOMAN AND HEE VICTIMS. The public has heard of late numerous chap ters no less startling than interesting, in the history of "fast" young men, who, yielding to temptation in an evil and unguarded hour.have rushed headlong to ruin ; but here is a history which eclipses them all an account of an ex traordinarily clever and brilliant;fast"woman, whose power of fascinating and beggaring men has been wonderful. We copy from the Paris correspondence of the Courier des Etats Unisi "Among the young spendthrifts noticed in the journals of the day, is the name of a Prus sian prince, count or baron Enchel, who has eaten up, in less than four years, a fortune of more than six million francs, all for the sweet eyes of a woman well known in Paris as the Marchioness of Paiva. The history of this wo man is curious. She was observed in Russia, where she was born of Jewish parents, by a great pianist who conceived for her a passion justified by her beauty, and above all by her knowledge and intelligence. She spoke seven languages perfectly. The pianist brought her with him to Paris, "where he had the weakness to present her as a legitimate wife in society, and even at a conrt ball. At this ball she made such an impression on one of the princes of the Orleans family, that she attracted him to the home of the man whose name she bore. Borne down by his excessive expenses,the artist quit ted France for a time to mend his fortunes a broad. His companion, left at home during his absence, quitted it one fine morning to fol low Lord Ward, known m London by his con quests of this kind. This nobleman did not retain her long be economized too much the wealth of which she was greedy. Returned to Paris in quest of a new position, which was the hight of her ambition, she encountered the young Marquis of Paiva, brother of the Por tuguese embassador, whom she so fascinated that he espoused her legally and religiously, promising her a million francs in case they should seperate on incompatibility of temper. This event was not long in coming. The new Marchioness could not consent to live in the heart of Portugal.w hither her husband had ta ken her, he counted out the million and let her go. At the end of a year the million had vanished, so that the Marchioness was obliged to sell furniture, horses and carriages, and to take refuge in furnished lodgings, where she spent ber last cent. She had not the where withal to pay lor a dinner, when she met a friend to whom she told her condition, and who offered her a meal at the Restaurant Le doyen, in the Champs Elysees. In the con versation at dinner she told him that here she would soon be a millionaire or drowned ; that this was her unchangeable resolution, and the vision of her slumber. While saying this she held in her hand a journal, and her eyes rested on an extract from a Prussian gazette, rela tive to the decease of a Prussian personage, who left ten or twelve millions to his two young unmarried nephews. She read this sev eral times, became thoughtful, and four days afterward she left for Prussia with a thousand francs borrowed fiom her acquaintances. She was presented afterwards, I know not how, to the eldest of the heirs ; but he was a species of Nimrod huntsman who had no passiou but the chase. She addressed herself to the cadet of the family. He, just coming from school, was of a nature sweet and sensitive as that of his brother was rude, ne was am easy prey, and hardly had the adroit huntress caught him in her toils, than the death of his brother dou bled his fortune. He followed his tempter to Paris, and surrendered himself to her with such abandonment, that I have beard that young man, endowed nobly in body and mind, who knew all the antecedents of her who had seduced him, express his regret that she was not a widow, so that he could bestow upon her his name, as be had his fortune. He was hard ly twenty-eight years old, while she. was over forty ! He covered her with the rarest dia monds and pearls that could be found. He bought for fcer a country seat near Paris,which is a princely chateau. She gave every week splendid dinners, but she had tfor guests only men, and this tormented her. Her ambition, when all else was satisfied, was to attract to her, by her splendid style of life, women who were not of the demi-monde. This impossi ble thing caused ber to blush amid her opu lence. Hoping to triumph over this obstacle, by softening the conscience of the public, she commenced to build in the great avenue of Champs Elysees a mansion which would be a wonder. The . staircase is entirely of onyx, and the dining of malachite. But the work has been suspended, alter an expense of two or three million of francs. The poor rich man has come to the end of his millions after reaching that of his illusions ! A monster Oyster placer, which has recent ly beeu discovered on Long Island, N. Y., has created great excitement among the oyster men along the Sound. The Norwalk Gazette says its estimated value is five millions of dol lars. The bed is in six or eight fathoms wa ter, and the yield is immense. One man has averaged four hundred bushels a day, with on ly one sloop. On one particular day he took no fewer than six hundred bushels. Small brats, with only one dredge, readily haul up 23 bushels per day, and often more. It has been estimated that oysters to the amount of $750,000 have been already taken, white mil lions more remain on hand. The oysters aro very large. The great problem of the source of the Nile, which has occupied the attention ot the world during so many ages, may now be considered as definitively solved. Capt. Speke, who has just returned to England from an extended tour in Central Africa, in company with Capt. Burton, discovered a lake, called by the na tives Nyanza, but by the Arabs Ukerewe, which appears to be the great reservoir of the Nile. It extends from 2 deg. SO min. south to 3 deg. 30 min. north latitude, lying across tho equator in east longitude S3 deg. Its wa ters are the drainage of numerous hills which surround it on almost every side. The new lake washes ont the Mountains Ot thd Moon as as at present existing in our tla?t An Irish clergyntn, havjnjr ta vteit the portraits of the ScoUinh Kings i llUv rood Hons, observed one of the nwnarehs of a very youthUt! ppeW-Wee, wftile fe't deplete! with A long iro-e the trH of cWrew old SaU MarU!" e-x .b.i gtfetfentftft was eM tuaft wta kit lih-e. fceUber teasel Mi! r THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICIKE The following article, over tho signature of "An Old Doctor," we find in the October No. of the Great Republic Monthly. It contains some hints which it might be well enough lor those interested to reflect upon : - "The great error of most practitioners is to regard medicine as having a curative power ; hence tbey persist in administering it in vari ous modes and forms, while their patients have lifo and ability to swallow it, until death closes the scene. . "All medicines arc, in various degrees, es sentially poisonous, and most of them are very concentrated poisons ; wherefore, to avoid im mediate death from theituse, they are admin istered in very small quantities; but, never theless, their continued and protracted use is inevitably fatal, or destroys the patient's con stitution in the end, it nature, fortunately holds out until its exhibition is discontinued by some lucky circumstance. "The beneficial effect of any medicine in tho fit st stages of its exhibition arises from tho prompt action of its poisonous qualities, in small doses, to rid the system of congestions that would be fatal if not displaced by the vio lent efforts of the organ to get rid of the poi son, whereby nature is at once enabled to re sume its wonted healthy action ; consequently a curative power or healthy quality is impu ted to the medicine. This is a delusion; though the good effect, so far, serves as well as it the qualities of the medicine were sanative. But if such prompt relief does not occur, or if it does occur in a sufficient degree for the re action ot nature, but is not sufficiently heeded by the practitioner to teach him to abstain from the further exhibition of his medical poi sons, his patient, under their continued use, passes into a state of chronic debility produced by the medicine, not by the original disease. Nevertheless, the practitioner, mistaking this new crisis or change in the type of disorder for an alleged obstinacy in the original disease, instead ot desisting, continues more diligently to exhibit his poisonous medicines in every form, while his patient is becoming emaciated with prostration for want of nourishment and other appliances of good nursing. "No medicine or varieties of medicine that debilitate the organs of digestion the stom ach and bowels and their auxiliaries should be continued more than 21, 30. or 48 hours, ac cording to the strength of the patient to re sist their prostrating tendency. A nutritive diet should never be neglected longer than this, or the patient will lall into a state of de bility and prostration of vital power worso than the original disease. Indeed, to guard against this tendency to prostration, regard should be had to nutritive, but light diet, in the earliest stages of treatment of the original disease, to prevent its degenerating into ty-' phoid fever or other chronic stages of debility and prostration, so of ten attended with a weak and fluttering hectic pulse, frequently mista ken for fever, requiring further debilitating remedies instead of liberal nourishment, a tepid bath, and a respite from the further ex hibition of medicine. "In cases of great prostration, where medi cine has been too long persisted m, attended with heat and thirst, mucilaginous drinks should be resorted to, slightly acidulated, and sweetened to the taste of the patient ; such as flaxseed tea, with lemon juice and sugar, may be drank freely, hot or cold, first straining it from the flaxseed. Boiled milk, thickened, with grated nutmeg; also, well-boiled f rice, with milk sweetened and grated nutmeg; and, at intervals, wine panada would be very grate ful". Also, chicken thoroughly boiled, and al ternated with the above, would make as great a change for the better as the pertinacious use of medicines would make tor the worse until death should close the scene. "I am sure that the above hints will strike home to the common sense of every intelli gent person, and should be heeded by the friends of the sick everywhere." P. S. A tepid bath, and sponging the tem ples and the crown of the head with cold wa ter, would give great relief in delirium. . ThbIrisu Root Doctor. It appeared best to the excise commissioners of a town in New York to refuse license for the sale of intoxica ting liquors to all persons save a doctor of known integrity and strong temperance prin ciples, who promised not to 6ell except for me dicinal or mechanical purposes, (fne WheeU ? er, an eccentric Irish cobbler, longed lor a " quiet drink, and with a sober air and smooth tongue, petitioned tho doctor for a quart of gin. 'For wlyit purpose do you wish it ?" asked the doctor. ..... ' Sure, doctor, I've been very bad for nearly ten days back, with a great goneness in my stomach, and not a haper of good can I get from anything in these turns but gin to soak some roots in." . . r "And do you tell me, upon your honor,,. Wheeler, that you wish the gin to 6oak somo roots in, and to be taken as medicine for a weak stomach ?" f "Faith, as I live, doctor, I only want the gin to soak some roots." . .. . The doctor, confident from his sallow apV.. pearance that the man was sick, and that a lit-.-, tie tonic bitters would not hurt him, filled hi ' bottle. On reaching the street, Wheeler faced. the doctor, who stood in the doorpSaeed !U thumb upon his nose and made' sundry gy Tac tions with his fingers, then put. the bottle to. bis mouth, and took a long guzzle at the gin.. , "Stop !" cried the doctor; "you gave me; your word of honor that you only wanted fii to soak some roots, and here you are drinking: yourself dead drunk." "Faith, doctor, and I'm afthet telling yoo,;' no lies. I wanted the gin to soak the. roots ' of me tongue, which was so dhry I could niv- -er swallow a mouthful of mate to strengthea my stomach, at all.1 ! 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