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Sill ('.KltT'S PATENT
7"ASHIlTG 1-CHX1TE.
II HIS Machine his now been testej by morp
than thirty families in this neighborhood, and
is given entire .atitiluclioii. It is mi simple, in its
obstruction, that it cannot got out of order. It
"Maim no iron to u-t, and no -piingsor rollers to
et out of repair. It will do twice as much wish
ig, with less than halt the wear and tear of an) of
le late invent ions and what is of greater in.por
uce.it costs but little over half us much as other
ashing machines.
The mbserilier has the eiclui-ive right for Nor.
luinhcrbnd, I'nion, Incoming, Colunihiu, Lu
rue and Clinton counties. Price of single ma.
,inc f C. H.U. MASSER.
The following certificate 's from a few of those
ho have these muchines in use.
Suuhury, Aug, 24, 1 4 i.
We, the sulscrihers, certify that we have now
ue, in our families, Shugert's Patent Wsh
g Machine," and do riot hesitate spying that it is
nost excellent invention. That, in Wa-bing,
will rave more than one hall the usual labor.-
iut it does not require more than one third the
tial quantity of sop and water ; Hiid that there
no rubbing, and consequently, little or tin wear.
I or tearing. That it knocks oifno buttons, and
it the finest clothes, such ascollars, Iscea, lucks,
.Is, Vc, may l washed in a very short lime
thout the least injury, and in fact without any
.larent wear and tear, whatevrr. We therefore
erfnlly recommend it to our fiiemls and to the
ti lie, as a most useful and labor saving machine.
CHARLES W.HEGINS,
A. JORDAN,
CHS. WEAVER.
CHS PLEASANTS,
(ilDEON MARKLE,
Hon. CEO. C. W ELK Ell,
HEN J. HENDRICKS,
ClUEON LEISENR1NO.
jib's Hotkl, (formerly Tremont House, No.
16 Cliesnut street,) Philadelphia, September
1st, 1841.
hsve used Shugert'a Patent Washing Machine
ny hou-e upwards of eight months, and do not
tate to lay that I deem it one of the mo t use
and valuable labor-saving machines ever inven
I formerly kept two women continually oc
ied in waahiug, who now do as much ii two
a as they then did in one week- There is no
lr or tear in washing, and it requires not more
n one-third the usual quantity ol soap. I have
a number of other machines in my family, bu'.
is so decidedly superior to every thing else, and
ittle liable to get out of lepair, that I would not
without one if they should coat ten times the
e they are sold for. DAN 1EI. HER It.
7PERIOR Port wine, Maderia and Li.bon
wines. Also superior Urandy and (Jin, Lemon
up.
Also a few barrels of Bi.ra r ish, for sale
HENRY MASSER.
fctnbury, July 19th, 184S.
From the Boston Journal.
STANZAS TO ENGLAND,
Reply to 'A Remonftrimet Wth Amcrienns,' wh'eh
lately appeared in Dickens' 'London Ncu-n,'
JIT Wlt.MAM H. TAPPAN.
Cprtre, proud Triton ! cease your boastings !
dropping like perpetual rain;
Threats are cheap, and endless railing
Is as foolish ns 'tis vain.
We alike your worldly terrors
And your pity must refuse;
Insolence from haughty nobles,
Wit from Dickens's "Daily News."
That our sires were English blooded
Plainly tells orr pilgrim stock ;
That they owned the Saxon spirit
You may read on Rnnker's rock;
That we speak with British accent,
That our thought's like 1'ritons' flow,
Ask, if we will yield to threatening ?
F.ighteen millions answer, NO !
Yet we're peaceful ; while the tumults
Of old Europe hurry on,
Our young nation sits contented
With the boon her founders won.
And she's happy Victory's laurel
With the olive-blossoms meet,
Art and Commerce, Thrift and Labor
Tour their riches at her feet.
We the sweets of Peace have tasted;
Our Republic's breadth and length
Know what influence has cemented
Her in power and wealth and strength.
Shall we squander real enjoyment
For the mifery war has won ?
Shall we barter wide spread Plenty
For the barren Oregai: ?
Why should we the thousand channels
Force aside that fill our cup ?
Why on conflicts horrid altar
Burn our dearest treasure up 1
We have nought to win by quarrel,
.Much to lose ; defeat's a curse ;
If we crush your fleets and armies
What will be the gain to us?
Not by conquest can a people
Their position elevate;
Terish the unworthy notion !
Perish rivalry and hate!
Terish brutal War forever!
Dove-like Peace, throughout the wot Id
Fly with healing wings wherever
Once the cloud of battle curled!
While we smile at crown ami sceptre,
To which peers and princes kneel,
Men of England ! we true pity
For your weeping millions feel.
Would we deeper crush the guiltless
Whom the iron foot hath trod ?
Would we lacerate and trample
Bleeding hearts? fqrbid it Cod ?
We would meet you as invaders !
Give you cheer instead of scorn !
Fight and conquer Ireland's famine
With our potent wheat and corn !
Such a victory do we covet
As would bless your queenly isle,
Ami from John O'Groat's to Land's End
Light up England with a smile '.
Wait a little ; study patience ;
Let not every idle note
Carried over the, Atlantic
Seem a roar from Buttle's throat.
They who fume and fret are madmen ;
Even now their ravings cease;
Patience ! till our thoughtful Senate
In its wisdom utters Pkaof. !
Boston, March 20, Is 10.
Why Farmers fitot i.u take a Newspaper.
A farmer t-hould take i weekly newspaper
for the pake of his children. If he would not
have them grow up in ignorance of whit is pss
sing at humeand abroad if he would prepare
them for a proper discharge of their duties as
citizens, hu owes it to t'iriii to give them the
benefit of this weekly instructor, cutninj; into the
family without busllu or pretence and perform.
injj its rflice without delay. There is a vast
mount of intellioence condensed in the nitr-
ruw limits ot a well conducted paper. Much of
this can be obtained in no other way; and lr
the remainder the student mutt wade through
ponderous volumes or waste his youth over the
midnight lamp. Whatever may be thought of
it by our friends in the country, we know that
taking a newspaper is a cheap way of diffusing
information through a family circle, and we
know too thai it w ill, as a general rule, put ten
dollars into the pocket of the farmer, for every
one it draws out JV. y. Farmer.
A Yankee lias invented a machine which
rocks the cradle and gently waves a' peacock's
feather over the child's lace at the same time ;
so that instead ot singing the lullaby to put the
child to sleep, the toother may solace herself
with the latest novel,
From the Water-Cure Journal.
A liKTTKIt I HO.M CAPT. CtiARIDGIS
To the NtwVork Tribune.
Our readers are perhaps not all aware of the
fnct, that to Capt, Claridge , of Iindnn, belongs
the credit of ha ving first introduced the pystem
of Water-Curc, as practised by Prieosnitz, into
F.ngland. It must be apparent to all that it
required no small amount of courage and per
severance to brinj into public notorioty so
quickly a system eo opposed to the notions of
mankind at large. It is only between three
and four years Bince Cnpt. Clarirljje first com
menced his labors in F.ngland. There are now
numerous institutions for water treatment in
that country, ami some of the most talented phy
sicians have become converts to trte cause with
in that time, and are practising IrydrnpathicaPy.
Capt. Claridgr, it should bo remembered, is a
pentlemnn of fortune, and is in no sense a prac
titioner for pecuniary pnin. Himself was cured
of an old complaint, and afterwords other mem
bers of his family received like benefit at the
establishment of I'ricssnitz. Knowing well, as
he did, the great, the incalculable worth of hy
dropathy, he resolved that the system should be
come understood in his own country, and for
the purpose of becoming on efficient promulga
tor of it, he set to work, student-like, at the es
tablishment of Priessnitz, to understand the
cure. His trontiee on the subject is one of the
best ever written. En. Iovh.
fira? fen berg, Silesia, July, lS-lo.
To the V.i'. iior of the ,V. 1'. Tribune :
Sir, Of nil ancient or modern discoveries in
science. and all niunt admit they have been
very great none can bear any comparison in
point of merit or physical utility with tho
science of Hydropathy. What is to be compar
ed to Health 1 When we look around tis and
see to what an alarming extent disease prevails,
the inadequate means that are resorted to im
pede the forced and positive marches of the
grim tyrant Death, and more especially, when
we sec his approaches hastened by medical as
sietnnce, we must, on reflertion, become con
verts to tho opinion that "there must be some
thing rotten in the State of Denmark." It may
he fairly asked, How can poisons cure diseases !
and as fairly answered, They do not. Their
office is what is erroneously called a cure,
whereas iheir effect has only been to repel tho
effort that nature made to throw from the system
that which impeded her operations. It is con
tended that ell drugs, however harmless in
their nnture, are foreign to the human body, and
as such they force, and thereby lower the fys
t em. Those who are in the habit of swallow
ing so lnrgely of those noxious substances, are
they healthier or happier than the rest! On
the contrary, when one sees a poor wretched
object, worn down by snfWinn', on being inter
rogated as to his condition, and as to what has
hern done for his relief, is not the usual answer;
'Oh, but I have taken a great deal ot medicine
in my time V And what i the history of this
vaunted mode of healing man's infirmities ? No
prisonous herb Iibs been h'lt untried ; no de
leterous mineral has escaped the pharmacnpm'a;
hundreds of thousands of men have spent their
lives in their application; millions of moiiry
have been spent to acquire these drugs; and
myriads of human beings hurried to a prema
ture grave by expeiimcnts made to ascertain
their utility. The naturul supposition would h,
that their administration now was, safe their
effects true to a demonstration ; but no, does
not every day's experience prove that the fol
lowing lines by Horace Smith are right !
' Physic ? a freak of times and modes,
Which yearly old mistakes explodes
For new ones Ftill absurder
All slay their victims disappear,
And only leave this doctrine clear,
That killing is no murder."
Hut, thank Providence, the time has arrived
when the fallacies of tho faculty are to bi?
made evident. Here, on one of the mountains
of Silesian Austria, ot a hamlet called (Irtefen
berg, stands the laurel-crowned l.rro, at whose
fiat the long cherished, the rxtensively practic
ed science of poisoning is to be scattered to
the winds. As rar'.y as twelve years ofage,
j Vincent l'ricssnitz cured his own finger ot a
cut, his wrist of a sprain, and, lour years later,
cured himself of broken ribs and wounds come
tient on being run over by a wagon, all by the
agency of simple spring water. His fame ex
tended to the surrounding neighborhood,
throughout all Germany, aud finally, to every
part of the habitable globe. Seeing the enor
mous moral and physical advantages that might
result to society by first curing their ailments,
and by teaching them the benefit that must re
sult from ablution, temperance, d exposing
themselves to atmospheric changes, this extra
ordinary youth, although ha saw breakers a
head, determined on pushing oil' his boat on the
troubled sea. Persecutions Irom the faculty
in his neighborhood were seconded by tho au
thorities of the country, and finally by the
Priesthood, who denounced him in the church
at Friewaldau, where he was in the habit of at
tending. Nothing daunted, he pulled the wil
ling oar until, the value of his svstrm beinf as
certained, the late Emperor of Austria pave
him permission to have an establishment. This
was in From that time, notwithstanding
it required a well constituted tjnd more than
ordinary mind to bear up agninst the annoy
ances he was subject to, he went on, making
farther discoveries in the appliances of water,
tintil it may now truly be called a feience. by
which all diseases curable by any known means,
and many altogether beyond the medical art,
are cured. H'herc is the professional man that
can sny with Priessnitz, thot out often thou
sand invalids that hove passed through his hands
he 1ms only lost forty? That such is the fact
ot f!rrcrenberg any person may ascertain, who
will take the trouble of inquiring nt the. neigh
boring Police Ollice, where every thing con
nected with Grti'f'enberg is especially register
ed. It must be noticed that patients who ap
ply to Priessnitz, do so as a dernier resort ; hav
ing tried all medical aid within their province,
and generally the mineral springs of Germany
and elsewhere, in vain,--and it is Assorted by
twenty Frglish ppntlemen, who signed a certi
ficate to that rfli-ct to the Times newsptpcr,
that the patients, with few exceptions, may he
divided into two classes, those whom medical
men have pronounced incurable, nn.l those
whose diseases are the results of medical treat
ment. Those diseases which carry off' whole dis
tricts, such as cholera, inflammations, riysrn'ery
and fevers, are as child's. play to Prirssnitz;
antl the same may be said of all complaints to
which children are subject, such as measels,
Fmall-U x, whooping cough, scarlatina, &c.
To sum up, we defy skept cs, or cthiTS who
have visited the Hygcine Temple, to state
a single instance in which he ever lost a case
where the attack was from any of those dan
gerous maladies. It may be questioned, Did
he ever treat cholera? IV; when it raged
some years ago in this ilistrict.it catried off'
hundreds of victims ; eighteen of Priessnitz's
patients, and many peasants in the neighbor
hood, were treated by him, all of whom reco
vered; and without those dreadful raiagcs in
the constitution evinced in those who were
lucky enough to escape under the allopathic
practice.
Although Priessnitz has never tried he ef
fect of his system upon yellow fever, yet he
feels assured it must be subdued by it ; a con
clusion that ho has a riyht to arrive at, since
hardly a week elapses without his aid heinrr
called in, in cases of brain, typus, pastrie and
other fevers, in the curing of which, as before
observed, he never was known to fail. Chro
nic diseases, and where th constitution is so
reduced as to be unable to assert its power ovet
the deleterious matter pervading the tsystetn,
also succumb to that element which God has
placed within the reach nf all his creatures.
Hernia, gout, rheumatism, drop-v. syphilis, dys
pepsia, and a host ot mumr iMs which himmn
nature is heir to, are succ'Jst'ully combntted by
this extraordinary man. And it t lnuMbo un
derstood that a cure effected at (rn-tenberg de
serves that 'urn, it beinr radical and perma
nent ; all matters detrimental to that state term
ed health are, by the Hvdropatliiral process,
brought to the surface ond t limiated, or pas
off by the ordinary means of evacuation the
skin is fortified slid strengthened, end all the
viscera of the body are made to perform their
proper functions.
It is very doubtful, opposed as Hydropathy
is to powerful interests, if the present genera
tion will derive from it, the immense advan
tages it offers. It is however, highly gratify
ing to its supporters to witness establishments
rising up in all directions. In Germany there
are at least fifty ; France, Switzerland, tlio
Tyrol, Hungary, Russia, Ireland, Scotland, r!I
have their institutions, and F.ngland counts at
least twenty besides private individuals who
are introducing it into their practice; and to
show its dissemination, it is only necessary to
Ktatc that at Gra-fenberg, ot this moment, there
are amongst the visitors sotnu of the leading
nobles of F.ng'and, Iiussis, Poland, Austria and
Ituly. There are also about a dozen visitors
from tho United States of America ; others
from (irecce, Turkey, India, Mexico, so that
there isaltnot as rri'at a concision of tongues
as at tho Tower of E.ibil.
All that the advocates of Hydropathy ask is,
a airfield and uo favor. Let those who doubt
wend their way to that far-famed mountain
which gave birth to the man who, like a sec
ond Columbus, discovered a new world, and
whose reputation will put into the shade that
of the great lights of antiquity, Hippocrates,
Galen, E-culapius; and we have no fears of the
result. Hundreds of books, from time immemo
rial, have been written in favor of Water as a
curative means, while not a line is on record to
the contrary. Since I was honored in being
the humble instrument of introducing the know
ledge of the Water-Cure into F.ngland, num
bers of our medical men have visited Gra'f'en
berg. Prejudiced against it as they w ere, the
public naturally expected that one, at least,
would have exposed the dangers of the system
and the fallacy of expecting si much from it;
but what has been the result ? Not a book has
appeared and at least twei ty have been writ
ten but has admitted the most important and
essential statements I made at the time.
As nearly all persons who undergo the treat
ment change their habits of life to those of tem
perance and early rising, and learn to eschew
poison in every shape, t.iqrnn?. as well asdrugs,
we cannot dmiht that, at some future period,
the name of Priessnitz will be far and wide
revered as having essentially assisted in res
cuing the human race no less from vice than
from disease.
It is gratifying to learn that in America there
are those who appreciate the system, as I feel
convinced, that once taken up with that energy
whicliso characterize our friends on your side
of the Atlantic, no interested motives on the
part of the few will he permitted to repress
this great boon to the many: and I hope that
every State in the Union will select a suitable
person to spend some time ot the fountain head
in order to bring back accurate knowledge on
this interesting subject. Your space will not
admit of my rxtending this letter, or I should
furnish for the perusal of your readrrs a num
ber of extraordinary cases of cure that I have
witnessed since my sojourn here for the last
three months. Several came here for gout,
who could not walk aeross their rooms, in a
few days they were ennbled to climb the moun
tains ! but to extract the morbid humors and ef
fect a cure, a much longer period will be neces
sary. Hhenmotism chronic cramps in the sto
mach, and dyspepsia, fevers of different 6orts,
inflammations, &c, all are now being treated
and bring cured herp. A case that has excited
a good deal of attention, is that of a man resi
dent about seventy miles from Grmfenbcrg. A
hout four weeks ago he was attacked with a
pain in the chest, which was blistered, when
the pain left the part and settled in the knee;
this began to enlarge, ond proceeded so fust a?
to alarm his medical Attendant, who conceived
it to be gangrene, ond thought the only chance
of saving the man's lid" waa amputating the
limb. The friends had called in a military sur
geon, who at once pronounced the disease drop
sy, and of course discountenanced the operation.
The whole of one thigh, as well as the abdo
men, soon became swelled to double their ordi
nary size, the skin polished as glass, ond, on be
ing pressed with the fingir, the indentation re
maiiird for a iliort tin e. In this stale lie came
to GrH'tonhcrg, where he underwent the treat
ment ; a visible reduction of the members has
ink i n place daily, and, on Hie. 8 xleenth day,
the man was hUc to a!k out for a short time.
Priessnitz tells us that in consequence of this
pit .er.t havir g been previously healthy, ot in
dustrious habits, and having taken but lit'le
medicine, a perfect cure will be effected in less
than throe mouths.
If you rimceive that the publication of these
facts can be interesting and beneficial to your
renders, may I beg the favor of your inserting
the snine.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
U. T. Cl AititKit, '. Piccadilly,
lmdon, at presei.t at Gra'fenberg
Tun Fi.oo.itm E Of Motion. HWinm V.
Prin'.on. Every one has reail of action, action,
action r f D-mosthctiPs, and of what a variety of
envitinn and passion Roscius could express by
mere gestures; let it not be supposed, howev
er, tlint such perfections of art belong to tho
ancients osly. The following anecdote of Win.
C. Preston, is illustrative of our remark :
Siiio yeDrs ago, nmonga thousand of others,
we weie listening to one of his splendid haran
gues from the stump. Il.'fiiles us was one, as
deaf os a po-t, in breathless attention, catching
apparently very word that fell from tho orator's
lip. Now the tears of delight would roll down
his cheeks, nnd now in an'ungovernable ecsta
cy. he trould shout out applause, which might
been mistaken for the noise of a small thunder
storm.
"At lengt'i Preston launched out one of thoso
passages of massive declamation which those
w ho have heaid him know him to be so capable
of utt- ring. In magnificent splendor it was
what l'vron has derer.bed the mountain storms
of Jura. Its t fiV'Ct upon the multitude was like
a whirlwind. Our deaf friend could contain
himself no longer ; but bawling into our ear, as
if he would blow it open with a teniptkt, "w ho's
that a speaking?'' crieU he.
"Wm ( Prestou," rcplicj we as loud as
our lungs would lot us.
"Who ?" enquired lie still louder than before.
"Win. C. Preston, of South Carolina, replied
we, almost splitting our throat in the effort.
"Well ! well" returned lie "I can't hear
a darn word he or you are saying, hut gteut
Jcrico don't he do the vwtiom fph mlid .'"
Suulh Carolina.
Seasonable. The white cf an egg is said t'j
bo a specific for fishbones sticking in the tht' ,t.
It is to le swallowed raw, and will carry down
a bone easily and certainly.
Wonders have, not Crasrd In nur Tlmtsi
A new push of lava is sen from Vesuvius;
but no wonder, because seen so cOen that it r.ev
ses to move the gazer with a s-'n of rrivi
but manna is now falling one oere f r - 1
ven, and we have only to lojjret tl. t it is vr '. n
further the great designs of a Mosea.
Transited from the SHinoH-v '
"A remarkable phenomenon is announced by
the pazottes of Constantinople, which all agree
in flic report i. c. that in Asia Minor, in tho
District of Jenischchir ond those of Siwrihiss:ir,
Eski Schchir and Reicli Gazt, manna has fallen
from Heaven. The Courricr of Constsntinnri
contains this notice: "Letters from Jenisehe
hir inform us that, for some time back, manna
has been falling from Heaven, and Ips supplied
ihe inhabitants with nourishment. They grind
it to flour and bake it in the snme way as brt ad,
nor is it inferior to what we usually eat.
"Th1? Journal de Constantinople says : The
same phenomenon which was observed at Ban
in 13-11 is now repeated in the District of Jen
ischehir, with similar and no less extraordinary
circumstances. It appears, from tho testimony
of persons of all modes of religious faith, that 0!'
er a season of partial famine the same marvel
that happened in behalf ot the people of Israel
has occurred again. A shower has fallen from
Heaven of substances about the size of hail
stones, not unlike the tear-form manna, and
pleasant to the tate. It fell in such quantity
as to lie three or futir inches thick on the ground,
aud served the people as food for many days."
What oVmm-k is it.? When I was a young
lad, my father one day called me to him that ha
might teach rr.c how to know what o'clock it
was. He told me the use ot the minute finner
and the hour hand, and described to me the fig
ures on the dial plato, until I was pretty perfect
in my part.
No sooner was I quite master of this addition,
al knowledge, than I set off" scampering to join
my companions at a game of marbles : but my
father called me back again: Stop, Humphrey,"
said he, "I have something more to U 11 you."
Hack again I went, wondering what else I
had got to learn; for I thought 1 kn-w all about
the clock, quite as well as my father did.
"Humphrey," said he, "I have taught you to
know the time of the day, I must now teach you
how to find out tho time of your life.
All this was strange to me, so I waited rath
er impatiently to hear how my father would ex
plain it, for I wanted sadly to go to my marbles.
"The Rible," says he, "describes the years of
man to be three score and ten, or four scoro
years. Now lite is very uncertain, and you
may not live a single day longer; but if we di
vide the four score years of an old man's life in
to twelve parts, like the dial of a clock, it will
allow almost seven years for every figure.
When a boy is seven years old, then tt is one
o'clock of his life, and this is the ease with you ;
when you arrive at fourteen years, it will be two
o'cWk with you; and at twenty-one years, it
w ill be three o'clock, should it please God thu
to spare your life. In this manner yru may
thus know the time of your tin I looking 1 1
the clock inay, perhaps remind you of ; My
great grardl'iit'if", according to his calculation
died at twelve ii'cV.ck ; my Tit: l:'i'Vr:;t e'ev
en, and mv father sit :. A- ''''
and I slnll die, llutii'ircy, is only known ti
Him to whom oil tilings rr" known."
Never since then have I heard tho inquiry,
"What o'clock is it ?" nordo I think that I have
ever looked at the fnco of the clock, without be
ing reminded cf the wordj of my father.
I know not, my friends, what o'clock it i
with yon, but I know very well what time if is
with myself: and thot if I mean to do anything
in this world, which hitherto I have neglected,
it is high time to s-t about it. The words of
my father have given a solemnity to the dial
plate of the clock, which it never would have)
possessed in my estimation, if the-e words had
'not been spoken. Look about you, my friends,
I earnestly entreat you ; now and then ask your
self what o'clock it is with you.
Tin: Potato. A farmer in Vermont last sen
son was behind all his neighbors 1 cutting hfs
grass in his meadow. At night some waggi.-'i
boys went into one of his meaduws. and cut
down all the grass in it. They also went into
his potato patch and cut a few swaths through
it. At the time of digging the potatoea they
were found rotten except ichtie the boys had
cut njr the tops, and they were all found good
and sound. This would seem to show that the
disease begins in the top, anj it suggests ass
means of saving a crop tho cutting off the to; s
so soon as the tops bfginto die. Morning
.V" if.
A Frenchman who waa exhibiting variotn
scred rel .eg a,,l ther curiosities, produced it
sword which he assured his visitors n '!"
s,l which llalaam had ven ):n would 'kill oV
. ,. 1 1...
ass. A spectator replied inai r amnio nni. 1
sword but only wished for one. 'Ver well, dm
is Je ver cue he wished for,'