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The principal objects to be kept In view
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from offending materials. 2d, to improve
the tone of the digestive organs and energy
of the system in removing noxious matters
from the atolls:tell, and obviating costiveness.
Violent drastic purgatives should be avoided
%tad those aperients should be used which
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RICHES NOT HEALTH.
Those who enjoy Health, must certainly
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CAUSE OF DYSPEPSI4.
This disease often originates from a hab,
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the muscular fibres or mental faculties, fear
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ly strong purgingmedicines, dysentery, mis
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RHEUMATISM,
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Mr. Solomon Wilson, of Chester co. Pa.,
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DR. JONATHAN GOING, PRESIDENT
OF THE GRANVILLE (~, L LEGE, Ohio (late
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ed New York, December. 1836. says:—
He was laboring under a revere cold, cough
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"—Mrs. Delks, of Salem, N.J.
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Mts. Ward, also of Salem, was cured of the
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Mr. Nicholas Harris, sen., one of the Dea
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before could relieve.
The Rev. C. C. P. Crosby, writes as fol
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New York, June 15,1838.
To Dr. Jayne:—Dear Sir,—l have made
use of your Expectorant, personally and in
my family for the last six years, with great
benefit. Indeed I may consider my life pro
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under the blessing of God, for several years.
I may say almost as much in the case of my
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Dr. JAYNE, Dear have been using
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Very respectfully yours,
R. W. WILLIAMS.
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A TRIIR STORY FROM LIFII.
BY CHARLES HOLDEN,
It was Washington Irving, I think, who
termed that fatal disease, Consumption,
a syren. I t is a most true remark. Co,
sumption is a syren that is frequently tri•
unipliant in deception, until the last day
t,f its victim's life. Who has nut, in this
era and place of the destroyer, had some
relative or friend prostrated by its pore'?
' It is the scourge or our land, and its vic
tims are full of the loveliest and most
gentle of the earth.
How this insidious disease baffles the
skill of the physician, and tampers with
the hopes of near relatives and endeared
friends! At one time flushing the cheek
with the hue of health—anon clothing the
brow of its vi;:tini with the pallor of
death!
1 recollect an affecting instance of con
sumption, that occurred in this city, and
within my own observation. The victim
was a yontli—at the time he was brought
down from his pinacle of hope by the in
satiate archer, he was hardly twenty years
of age. lle was pour—of humble origii.
—of limited prospects. lie had tried
one trade, but it did not agree with his
poor health—another with the stole re
stilt. The pour lad seemed marked, from
ear ly youth, fur trials, and they soon cao.e
thick upon him.
His Was a consumptive family. It was
one of those families that seem to die,
one after another, at about equal intervals
and of the same disease. The reader
mayhap, has observed such. One would
fall—the outbrcaking of the first deep
grief would become soothed into a quiet
melancholy—his vacant place would be
come familiar to the eye—the grass would
begin to wave luxuriantly over his grave
--the headstone would be reared, and
could be contemplated with outward com
posure by the survivors of the broken eir
cle;—wheit anon the hectic spot is on the
cheek of one of the mom tiers; an iucami
tious exposure—a gentle shower—the
damping of the feet/—one of these is the
ostensible cause; pain in the side ensues,
soon the hereditary symptoms become
more apparent—the victim rapidly fal
ters—is sick unto death—the earth is res
moved beside the former grave—another
mound appears—the bereaved are again
in weeds and tears; and so through a fami
running quietly, as though the put
ting oft' this "mortal coil" were hut as the
change of scene and air to others of a
stronger constitution—and all over!
The lad of whom I write was of a con
sumptive
family. Some of them had al
ready passed away. And when he was
taken ill, it was a common but unkind re-
mark that was made—he will die of con
sumption, as have those of his family be
fore him! It was tint so with his mother.
She • upheld his spirits with an unshrin
king heart, though severely did the incip
ient symptoms lacerate her feelings,
such a similitude did they bear to those
manifested in them that hail fallen.
•
But the most touching observation to
the feeling heart; was the "bow ot prom
ise" that had been obscured, and was ul
timately broken by this fearful disease,
between a lad and a young woman to
whom he had plighted his faith. They
had dreamed of lung years of earth and
happiness—but as the dreamer awakes
to find that the chimeras of his sleeping
moments are baseless—so awoke they, at
length, to the stern realities and desti
vies of human life.
I had heard something of the ardor and
singleness of purpose of W 0111411 1 .3 heart—
where she resigned it in its richness—
and how her empire where she reigned
pre.eminent, and shone an angel, was a
sick chamber. I had seen something ofl
it. In this young woman—such was my
situation-1 saw it fully developed; and!
with such beauty and simplicity, that her'
heart must have been the abode of deep
unquenchable purity and heroism, or she
must have faltered and failed amid her
trials.
I have a high, a most exalted opin
ion of woman's patient, inexhaustible en
durance of affliction. Take her away
from scenes of misery--let her have no
cause of anxiety and watching—allot to
her only the ord wary duties of life— and
it seems to you that a single wave of dis
quietude would unfit her for usefulness.
So feminine—so fragile— how, it occurs
to you, can she endure an additional bur
then! But when the blow does come,
I who attends the sacrifice .with most tio.
shrinking heroism? Man? Proud ethel
tic man? No. Woman! weak, depen
dent, tender woman--upon whom it
were feared the winds of heaver. might
blow too roughly—she holds her tireless
•vatch amid the scenes of sorrow—wo
man is preeminent here, here she shows
her excel:once sad endurance. While
'EDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1841
man flags and falls asleep with weariness,
she glides about, night alter night, now
refreshing the parched lips of the suffer-'
cc with a cooling draught—now smooth
ing his pillow, that his aching head, if it
were possible might rest easier, anon
hushing every sound that his unquiet
sleep may not be broken! In all this
world of selfishness and suffering, what
contemplation is more ennobling to fe
male characte.., than that when she is ex
erting her l.oly ministrations about the I
beu-side of suffering humanity.
And this was the character of the
young woman, between whom and the
Consumptive there had grown up a warm
affection. FF siting in the humblest paths
of life, she evinced the excelhencies of,
heart which would have ennobled a we.
man in her proudest estate. It was near
ly two years from the time the youth
first became unabled to be abroad all day
until the curtain fell upon the last scene
of the tragedy. As soon as he became so
helpless as to need the soothing, hand at
night,though lie was well attended by his
mother, the devoted girl was not at ease
till she could administer that soothing
herself, She must support herself with
her own hands; for this is tritely one of
the 'simple animals of the pour.' During
t h e day she plied her needle for her live-
I Wined; at night she was a tender and
careful nurse, if need there was.
At length his disease became more in
veie,ite, and he required constant atten
;wn, by night mid by day. Then it was
thai liis motile girl, after the application
to h,:r task by day, would watch close be
side his bed-side during the night, catch
ing at intervals a little rest, and again re
turn. exhausted with sorrow by the obser
vation of his sufferings and by the unre
mitt,tl vigils, to her daily toil.
My situation was such, I knew much
that transpired within the sick chamber
of that youth. It was a part of the gt eat
d ramma, and I studied it. It was a pic
ture of what all must come to, and though
painful to gaze upon, I would not shrink
from it. Man must die, it were well for
him to ponder the great truth. Let him
look the attendants full in the tace; the
sick ehamt,er, the coffin, the hearse, the
likless clay, and let him listen to the
wails of the mourners. It is an important
art of the drama, and he is unwise who
avoids its representation, and can only
look 3 t health, and listen to the voice of
pleasure. Ile will cower when the strug
g/e shall come : as does timid woman be
fore the vivid lightning's Hash.
NlThen this youth learned that hernnst
die, for he admitted the tearlul truth at
length, although it seemed hard, with
earth and sky as when he revelled upon
and beneath them in the full health of
his boyhood, at twenty, to lie down, with
out a pang at the heart, and acknowledge
there was no hope! Olen these oppres
sive feelings came upon him, then would
this devoted girl throw out all her arts to
lift his spirit above the earth. She would
talk with him, read to him, when the
cloud lay most heavily, she would dispel
it by singing plaintive airs to him; and
when the hoarse wave of death seemed to
break in upon his mil, awl .io-imagina
tion he fancied he the earth grate
upon his coffin, she would pray with him;
until the soothing spirit of religion would
subdue the wave of despair that had o•
verwhelmed him.
They were both young; it ivas therefore
the more rare and affectiog to hear, some
times the one and sometimes the other, as
they sent up their artless petitions to
heaven.
But why lengthen, out T,a sad but true
tale! The Consumptive grew gradually
but surely worse. Ile lingered till one
hope after another was wrested from his
feeble grasp. Ile lingered on till all
hope was gone; till the relentless disease
drove him from the pleasant sunshine a
bout his own door step to the window of
his room; from that to the easy chair;
from that to his bed, never more to rise!
But no event save death, could wrest her
from his bed side. She wasted to a shad
ow; still her daily walk was to the place
of her labor; her leisure moments at his
side. Comforts from her scanty earn•
ings, she procured him with a liberal
hand. Who can appraise such devotion
and love.
The hour at length came. He died! 1 ,
In the graveyard yonder you may not
di,ainguish his grave, for it is of marked
with the show attendant on the resting
place of the rich. But in the hearts of,
those who loved him while living, and
sorrowed for him when dead, his memo
ry is enshrined; and the radiance of their
pure affection and devotion still :plays a
round the hearts of those who saw his man
ifestations. To them it is left to pity,
and such affection, such self-denial, suet
ennobling devotion to suffering humanity
is more worthy an imperishable monu
ment, than the most heroic deeds that
were ever .lone by the most chivalric wo
' man of whom fame is clamorous!
A Melting Story.
No other class of men in any country
possess that facetious aptness of inflicting
a good-humored revenge which seems to
be innate with a Green Mountain boy.--
Impose upon or injure a Vermonter, and
he will seem the drollest and best-natured
fellow you ever knew in all your life, un
til suddenly he pounces upon you with
some cunningly-devised offset for your
duplicity; and even while he makes his
victim smart to the cure, there is that
manly open-heartedness about him which
infuses balm even while the wound is
opening, and renders it quite impossible
that you should hate him, however severe
may have been the punishment he dealt
out to you. These boys of the Green
Mountains seem to possess a natural fac
' ulty of extracting fun from every vicissi
tude and accident that the changing hours
can bring; even what are bitter vexations
to others, these happy fellows treat in a
manner so peculiar as to completely alter
their former character, and make them
seem to us agreeable, or at least endiirs.
ble which was before in the highest de
gree offensive. Another man will repay
an aggravation or an insult by instantly
returning injury, cutting the acquaintance
and shutting his heart forever against the
offender; but a Vermonter, with a smile
upon his face, will amuse himself while
obtaining a far keener revenge,' cracking a
joke in conclusion, and making his former
enemy forgive hint and even love him af•
ter chastisement.
One winter evening, a country store
keeper in the Mountain State was about'
closing his doors for the night, and while
standing in the snow outside putting up
his window shutters, he saw through the'
glass a lounging, worthless fellow within,
grab a pound ot fresh butter from the shell
and hastily conceal it in his hat.
The act was no sooner detected than
the revenge was hit upon, and a very few
momenta found the Green Mountain store
keeper at once indulging his appetite for
ton to the fullest extent, and paying off
the thief with a facetious sort of torture,
fur which he might have gained a premium
from the old inquisition.
"I say, Seth t" said the store keeper,
coming in and closing the door alter 111111,
slapping his hands over his shoulders and
stamping the snow off his shoes.
Seth had his band upon the door, his
hat upon his head, and the roll of new
butter in his hut, anxious to make his exit
as soon as possible.
.1 say, Seth, sit down; I reckon, now,
on such an e•tar•nal night as this, a little
something warm wouldn't hurt a fellow;
come and sit down."
Seth lelt very uncertain; he had the
butter, and was exceedingly anxious to be
off, but the temptation of "something
warm" sadly interfered with his resolu
tion to go. This hesitation, however, was
soon settled by the right owner of the
butter taking Seth by the shoulders and
planting him in a seat close to the stove,
where he was in such a manner cornered
in by barrels and. boxes, that while the
country grocer sat before him there was
no possibility of his getting out, and right
in this very place sure enough the store
keeper sat down.
"Seth, we'll have a little warm Santa
Cruz," said the Green Mountain grocer,
as he opened the stove door, and stuffed
in as many sticks as the space would ad.
mit. "Without it you'd freeze going
home such a night as this."
Seth already felt the butter settling
down closer to his hair, and jumped up,
declaring he must go.
"Not till you have something warm,
Seth ; come, I've got a story to tell you,
too; sit down, now ;" and Seth was again
pushed into his seat by his cunning tor
mentor.
"Oh! it's darn'd hot here," said the
petty thief, again attempting to rise.
"Set down—don't be in such a plaguey
hurry," retorted the grocer, pushing him
back in his ceair.
..But I've got the cows to fodder, and
some wood to split, and I must be spin,"
continued the persecuted chap.
..But you mustn't tear yourself away,
Seth, in this manner. Set down ; let the
cows take care of themselves, and keep
yourself cool; you appear to be fidgetty,"
said the roguish grocer, with a wicked
leer.
The next thing was the production of
two smoking glasses of hot rum toddy, the
very sight ot which, in Seth's present sit•
nation, would have made the hair stand
erect upon his bead, had it not been well
oiled and kept down by the butter.
"Seth, I'll give you a toast now, and you
can butter it yourself," said the grocer,
yet with an air of such consummate sim
plicity that poor Seth still believed him
sell unsuspected. "Seth, here's—here's
a Christmas goose--(it was about ,Christ
mas time) —here's a Christmas goose, well
' roasted and boated, eh? I tell you, Seth,
it's the greatest eating in creation. And
Seth, don't you ever use hog's fat or corn.
won cooking batter to baste with; fresh
[WitioLE No. 266.
pound butter just the same as you see on
that shelf yonder, is the only proper thing
in natur to baste a goose with—come, take
your butter—l mean, Seth, take your tod•
dy."
Poor Seth now began to smoke as welt
as to melt, and hie mouth was as her:neti.
tally sealed up as though he had been
horn dumb. Streak after streak of the
butter came pouring from under his hat,
and his handkerchief was already soaked
with the greasy overflow. Talking away,
as if nothing was the matter, the grocer
kept stuffing the wood into the stove,
while poor Seth sat bolt upright, with his
back against the counter, and his knees
almost touching the red-hot furnace be
fore him.
"Darnatioo cold night this," said the
grocer
"Why, Seth, you seem to perspire as it
you was warm! Why don't you take
your hat off? Here, let me put your hat
away!"
. . _
"No!" exclaimed poor Seth at last,
with a spasmodic efort to get his tongue
loose, and clapping both hands upon his
hat, "No! .1 moat go; let me out; I aiot
well ; let me go!" A greasy cataract was
now pouring down the poor fellow's face
and neck, and soaking into his clothes,aad
trickling down his body into his very
boots, so that he was litterally in a per
fect bath of oil.
"Well, good night, Seth," said the hu
morous Vermonter, "if you will go ;" ad
ding as Seth got out into the road,"neigh
bor' I reckon the fun I've had out of you
is worth a amputee, so I shan't charge
you for that pound of butler!"--New Ors
leans Picayune.
BURNING OF TUN CAROLINE,
M ESSAG E
OP THE
PRESIDENT OF TIIE UNITED STATES,
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TRANSMITTING
Correspondence in relation to the burning
of the Caroline.
To the House of Represetatieca of the
United Slates:
I herewith transmit to the House . of
Representatives a report of the Secretary
of State, with accompanying papers, in
answer to their resolution of the 21st. in
stant.
M. VAN BUREN ,
Washington, D(c. 28, 1840.
DEPARTMENT OP STATE,
Washington, Dec. 28, 1840
The Senate to whom has been referred
the resolution Qf the House of Represen
tatives, dated the 21st inst., requesting
the President to communicate to the House
(if not, in his opinion, incompatible with
the public interest) all the correspondence
between this Government and that of
Great Britain, or the officers or agents of
either, or the officers and agents of this
Government with the President or any of
its departments, which has not heretofore,
been communicated to that House, on the
subject of the outrage of the burning the
Caroline on the Niagara frontier; and
whether there is any prospect of compen
sation being made to the owner of said
boat for the loss thereof ; and also wheth
er any communications have been made
to this Government in reg ard to the at,
rest of - McLeod, by the authorities
of the State at New York, for being con
cerned in said outrage; and, if so, that
he communicate a copy thereof to that
House:" has the honor to report to the
President, in answer to that resolution.
thefollowingpapers....
Respectltilly submitted :
JOIN FORSYTH.
To the PRESIDENT of the United States,
Mr. S:evenßon to. Mr. Forsyth,
[Extract.]
Legation of the Unifel SlateA
London, July 2, 1839.
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I regret to say that no answer has yet
been given to my note in the case of the•
'Caroline.' 1 have not deemed it proper.
under the circumstances, to dress the
subject, without further instructions from
your department. If it is the wish of the
Government that I should do so, 1 pray to
be informed of it, and the degree of ur
gency that I am to adopt.
Mr. Foray'k to Mr. Stevenson.
[Extract.]
Department of Slate,
Washington, Sept. 11,1833
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With reference to the closing paragraph
of your communication to the department
dated the 2d of last, [No. 74,] it is pro.
per to inform you that ne instruction, are
again required fur again bringing fort