VOLUME XVII.
BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL.
WHERE may be obtained the most speedy re.
medy for
SECRI;IT DISEASES.—GIeets, Strictures,
Seminal Weakness, Pain in the Loins, Affections
of the Kidneys, and all those Peculiar Affections
arrising from a SECRET HABIT, particularly the
youth of both sexes, which if not cured, produces
Constitutional Debility, rendering JGa•riage impos
sible, and in the end destroys both Mind and
Body%
YOUNG MEN Especially, who have become
the victims of Solitnr•,y Vire, that dreadful and
destructive habit which annually sweeps to an un
timely grave thousands otyoung men of the most
exalted talents and brilliant intelect, who might
otherwise have entranced limning Senates with
the thunders of eloquence, or waked to eestacy
the living lyre, may call with full confidence.
Married persons, or those contemplating marri
age, being aware of physical weakness, should
imraediatedly consult Dr. J., and be restored to
perfect health.
DR. JOHNSTON, Office No. 7 SOUTH
FREDERICK STREET, SEVEN DOORS
FROM BALTIMORE STEET,Eatst side UP
THE STEPS. Ire BE PARTICULAR in ob
serving the NAME and NUMBER. or you will
mistake the place.
A CURE WARRANTED, on NO MARCH:
MADE, IN FROM ONE TWO DAYS.
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Take NOtice—Dr. Johnston's Office is in his
dwelling, UP THE STEPS. His very extensive
practice is a sufficient guarantee that he is the on
ly proper Physician to apply to.
DR. JOHNSTON, Member of the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons. London, graduate from ono of
the most eminent Colleges of the United States,
and the greater part of whose life has been spent
in the Hospitals of London, Paris, Philadelphia,
and elsewhere, has effected some of the most as
tonisßing cures that were ever known, many
troubled with ringing in the cars and head when
asleep, great nervousness, being alarmed at sud
den sounds, and bashfulness, with frequent blush
ing, attended sometimes with derangement of
mind, were cured immediately.
A CERTAIN DISEASE.—It is a melancholy
fach that thousands fall Victims to this horrid dis
ease owing to the Unskillfulness of ignorant pre
tenders, who by the use of that deadly poison
Mercury, ruin the Constitution, causing the most
serious syMptoms of this dreadful disease to mike
their appearance, such as affections of the head,
throat, nose, skin, etc., progressing with fright
ful rapidity till death puts a period to their dread
ful suffering, by sending them to that hoarse
science no traveler relates.
TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE.—Young
men who have injured themselves by a certain
practice indulged in when alunc—a habit frequent
ly learned from evil companions, or ut school—the
effects of which are nightly felt, oven when asleep,
and if
. not cured renders marriage impossible, and
destroys both mind and hotly.
IVhat a pity that a young man, the hope of his
country, and the darling of his parents should be
snatched from all prospects and enjoyments of life
by the consequences of deviating from the path of
nature and indulging in a certain secret habit.—
Such persons before contemplating.
MARRIAGE, should reflect that it sound mind
and body are the most necessary requisitsts to
promote connubial happiness. Indeed, without
these, the journey through lifb becomes a weary
pilgrimage. the prospect hourly darkens to the
view; the mind heroines shadowed with dispair,
and filled 'with the melancholy reflection, that the
happi-ness of another becomes blighted with our
own.
CONSTITUTIONAL DEBILITY.—Dr. J.
adi resses young men, and all who have injured
themselves by private and improper indulgence.
IMPUISSAN4—These are soon: of the sad
and melancholy effects produced by early habits of
youth, viz: Weakness of. the Bach and Limbs,
Pains in the head. Dimness of Sight, Loss of
Muscular Power, Palpitation of the Heart Dys
pepsia, Nervous IrritabilitY,Delangenients of the
I:anctions, General Debility Symptoms
of Consumption, Ac.
Atentally—The fearful effects on the mind are
much to lie sheathed; Loss of Mennary, Confusion
of ideas, Depression of Spirit, Evil Forbodings,
Aversion to Society, Self Distrust, Love of Soli
tude. ese. are sonic of the evils produced.
Thonsands of persons orall ages, can now judge
what is the cause of their declining !with. Los
ing their vigor, becoming weak, pale and emacia
ted, I ive a singular appearance about the eyes,
cough and symptoms of consumption.
Mt rried yersons;or those contemplating marri
age, being aware of physical %realm., should
immediately consult Dr. J. and be restored to
perfect health.
OFFICE.,NO. 7, SOUTH FREDERICK
STREET, Baltimore, Md.
AL S O ROICAL OPPERATIONS PER
FORMED.—N. B. Let no liaise delicacy pre
vent you, but apply immediately either personally
or by letter.
Skit Diseases Speedily Cured.
TO STRANGERS.—The MOW thousands cur
ed at this Institution within the last ten years,
and the numerous important Surgical Operations
performed by Dr. .1., witness by the Reporters of
the papers, and many other persons, notices of
which have appeared again mid again before the
public, is a sufficient guarantee that the afflicted
will hind a skillful and honorable physician.
As there are so many iynorant and 'worthless
quacks advertisiny themselves as Phisicians, ruining
the health of the afflicted Dr. Johnston would
say to those unacquaintM with his reputation that
his ereaentials or Diplomas always hang in his
office.
WEAKNESS OF THE ORGANS immedi
ately cut ed, and full vigor restored.
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GOOD NIGHT--A SONG.
Good night, good night, my dark-eyed love,
The stars are paling in the west;
Yet ere away from thee I rove,
Oh clasp nit to thy throbbing breast,
And let me know the holy bliss
That trembles in a parting kiss.
Good night, good night, the day beams rise,
'Tis time, and yet I cannot go;
But gazing in thine azure eyes,
Their mystic spell would only know;
But fare thee well, the morn is near,
I may not linger, loved one, here.
Yet ere 1 go, oh say once more
That thou wilt love me fondly still,
And memory will repeat it o'er
With wild and pure delights, until
We meet again in this dim light,
And softly breathe a sweet good night.
THE FIELD OF BUENA VISTA
A correspondent of the Richmond En
quirer thus describes the field of Buena
Vista, long after the sounds of the battle
had died away; when the roar of cannon,
the groans of the perishing, the shouts of
the triumphant had all ceased, and the
vulture and the jackal had retired from
their horrible repast. Such a picture gives
us quite as vivid an idea of the terrors of
such a conflict as would the actual scene :
I first rode near the battle field of Buena
Vista with some half dozen officers, one of
whom was Lieut. Benham, Topographical
Engineer, who shared the perils of the fight.
He first led us by the long ditch, where
repose the remains of the Americans who
fell in the battle. A hundred yards fur
ther we came to the narrow pass between
the base of a high hill and the deep canons
or gulleys which the Mexicans call Augos
turas, (the narrows) where was stationed
the battery of Col. Washington, with a
small ditch on the right, in which lay two
companies of marksmen; and on the high
hill to the left, behind some loose rocks,
hastily piled up, were posted some Illinois
troops. A deep ditch was dug across the
narrows, which are not more than thirty
feet wide, in front of the battery.
Next we passed up the valley, eleven
hundred yards distant, to the spot where
the discharges of Washington's battery
stopped the onset of the host of Mexican
cavalry that attempted a charge on his po
sition. A few hundred yards further, be
hind the hills, is where the Mexican legions
concentrated before the commencement of
the action. From the last named point we
ascended to the plateaus, where the main
action took place, which, at a glance, ap
pears to be a vast plain, but which, in re
ality, is broken by many ravines, stretching
down from the mountains. Here and there
on the field we passed au arm, a leg, or a
skull of some Mexican, or a pile of their
dead, who having fallen in battle, were has
tily and slightly buried, and afterwards un
covered s and mangled and scattered by
beasts of prey. Passing further on, we
looked upon the spot, beside a little bush,
where Lincoln was laid to bleed to death;
and down in a ravine we arrived at the
place where fell the amiable Clay, fighting
to the last. There, too, fell Harding; and
near by lies the Mexican (and his horse)
whom Harding slew in his last moments.
Here is the spot where Bragg made
his memorable stand, and here, also, lie his
dead horses; and out there in front is a
huge pile of dead Mexicans, whom his
grape-shot cut down, and whose shrieks and
groans arose above the noise of the conflict.
Buttons and caps, and shoes, and fragments
of various other clothing, and grape-shot,
and bullets, and cartridges, and flints, and
fragments of bombs, we met at every step.
Over the whole field, eight miles in diame
ter, numerous evidences existed that there
had been a fearful struggle. At the head
of a ravine we reached the spot to which
Benham. was sent by Gen. Taylor to recon
noitre the enemy, after one of their repul
ses. Benham observed a crowd of Mexi
can lancers about half a mile distant, ap
parently in much confusion--some seeming
anxious to come and fight again, and some
anxious to go the other way. In a few
seconds, however, ti cannon ball struck the
ground on his right, and within ten feet of
Benham—half a minute longer, and anoth
er ball struck about the same distance on
his left, Thinking the rascals might split
HUNTINGDON, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1852.
he speedily vamosed down the ravine, to
make his report to Gen. Taylor.
Then came the "tug of war"—and long
and fearfully the battle raged. By scores
the Mexican chivalry sunk down beneath
the sweeping showers of grape and rifle bul
lets. Well did they fight, for Mexico's
beloved and greatest chief was a spectator
of their struggle. And many a brave.
American, too, was destined to heave his
last sigh afar from the home of his child
hood. The battle of Buena Vista produ
ced a gap in many a happy circle, both in
Mexico and America; vacant places were
made which never can be filled again on
earth. No prisoners were taken in battle;
and the Mexicans, beaten, cowed, and star
ving, retreated at night in wild confusion,
leaving their dead and wounded to the ten
der mercies of their victorious enemies.
The Catacombs at Palermo.
A correspondent furnishes the following
description of the Catacombs of the Capu
chin Convent, at Palermo, Sicily:
Chief among the wonders of Palermo are
the Catacombs of the Capuchin Convent,
near the I'orta d' Ossunia. It is said to be
a place of antiquity; many of the bodies
have been preserved in it for centuries, and
still retain much of the original fresh
ness. I had heard of these catacombs in
Paris, and my visit to Palermo was induced
chiefly by the extraordinary account given
of them. Entering the ancient and ruinous
court of the Convent, distant about a mile
from the city, we were conducted by a
ghostly looking monk through some dark
passages to the subterranean appartments
of the dead. It was not my first visit to a
place of this kind, but I must confess the
sight was rather startling. It was like a
revel of the dead—a horrible, grinning,
ghastly exhibition of skeleton forms, sight
less eyes and shining teeth, jaws distended
Lnd bony hands outstretched; heads with-
Ott bodies, and bodies without heads—the
young, the old, the brave, the once beau
tiful and gay, all mingled in the ghastly
throng.
"We walked through long subterranean
passages, lined with the dead on both sides;
with a stealthy and measured tread we step
ped, for they seemed to stare at the intru
sion, and their skeleton fingers vibrated as
if yearning to grasp the living in their em
brace. Long rows of upright niches are
cut into the walls on each side; in every
niche a human form stands erect as in life,
habited in a robe of black, the face, hands
and feet naked, withered, and of ashy hue;
and grizzled beard still banging in tuffs from
the jaws, and in the recent cases the hair
still clinging to the skull, but matted and
dry. To each corps is attached a label
upon which is written the name and date
of the deceased, and a cross of the image
of the Saviour.
Soon recovering from the shock of the
first impression, I was struck with the won
derful variety and marked expression of
character in the faces and forms around
me. There were progressive dates of death,
extending front remote centuries up to the
present period, the niches being so arrang
ed as to admit of a regular order of depos
ite. Many of the bodies stood erect as if
just lifted from the death bed; the faces
colorless, and the horrible agonies of dis
solution stamped upon the features; the
lower jaws banging upon the breast; the
teeth grinning and glistening between the
parched lips, and the black hue of sickness
'about the mouth and around the sunken
sockets of the eyes; and in sonic the sight
less orbs were open and staring with a wild
glare of affright, as if peering into the awful
mysteries of the unknown bourne from
whence none return, while others wore a
grotesque laugh of derision still more ap
palling, with the muscles of the mouth
drawn up, the eyebrows lifted, the head
jilted knowingly on one side, the hair mat
ted in horny tufts, the bare spots ou the
skulls, like the piebald wig of a harlequin;
the skeleton arms stretched: and the bony
fingers spread as if to clutch the relentless
destroyer, and wrestle with him to the last.
These I fancied wore lively fellows, who,
were carried off suddenly after a midnight'
carouse. I sat down on a box containing
a dead child, and looking up at the row of
haaiaa nannuita that attraatari my vint;no T
saw among others an old gentleman, with
knitted brows and Lantern jaws; ranges of
bodies stood on each side of hint as if
laughing, talking, praying, dying, suffer
ing, listening, rejoicing, and feasting, at
the banquet of death. Ono little man, in
a dingy suit of black, sat in a corner; the
end of his nose was eaten off by the worms;
his mouth was compressed and had a pinch
ed expression; his hands grasped eagerly at
something.
There stood in another part of the vault
a fiery orator, with open mouth and dis
tended arms. The head was thrown back,
the breast partially bare, a few tufts of
black hair fell from his pie-bald skull, his
round staring eyes were stretched open,
and his eyebrows arched high on his wrink
led forehead; he looked towards heaven for
inspiration. I fancied I could hear the
flaming torrent, as it blazed and crackled
scintilated front his thin ashy lips. It was
the glowing eloquence of an ardent soul
that left its parting impress upon the clay;
the form yet spoke, but the sound was not
there. Passing on from vault to vault, we
saw here and there a dead baby thrown up
on a shelf—its little innocent face sleeping
calmly among the mouldering skulls; a log
or an arm, or an old skull, from which the
lower jaw had fallen; now a lively corpse,
jumping with a startling throe from its
niche, or a grim skeleton in its dark corner
chuckling at the ravages of the destroyer.
Who was the prince here? Who was the
great man, or the proud man, or the rich
man?
Turning away from this strange exhibi
tion of death's doings, I followed the old
monk into the vaults allotted to the women.
Here the spectacle was still more shocking
and impressive. The bodies wore not pla-
Ced in an upright position like those of the
men, but were laid out at full length in
glass cases, the wall on both sides being
covered.
The young, the gay, the beautiful, were
all here laid lowly in the relentless embrace
of death; decked out in silken dresses, la
ces, and jewelry, as in mockery of the past.
Ono corpse was a young bride who was
stricken down in a few brief months after
her marriage. She was dressed in her bri
dal costume ; the bonnet and veil still on,
the white gloves drawn over her skeleton
fingers; a few withered flowers laid upon
her breast by the mourning one she had
left behind. Through the thin veil could
be seen a blanched, grinning, bony face;
sunken sockets, marked around with the
dark lines of decay; and her long hair was
drawn in luxuriant masses over her wither
ed bosom.
It might be supposed that the air of the
catacombs is in some degree affected by
the fresh bodies; but this is not the case.
There is no offensive odor, and thdivisiter
would scarcely know, if he did not see them,
that he was surrounded by the dead. I
could perceive no difference in the atmos
phere of these vaults from that of any oth
er subterranean places, except a slight
smell of mould, not altogether disagreeable.
The fresh air is admitted from the top, and
it is to its extreme dryness that the pre
servation of the bodies may be attributed.
Dr. Franklin's Toast.
Long after Washington's victories over
the French and English and his name fa
miliar to all Europe, Dr. Franklin had
chanced to dine with the English and French
Ambassadors, when as near as we can re
collect, the following toasts were drank :
By the English Ambassador :
"ENGLAND.—The Sun, whose bright
beams enlighten and fructify the remotest
corners of the Earth."
The French. Ambassador glowing with
national pride, but too polite to dispute the
previous toast drank :
" FRANCE. - Tho .Moon whose mild,
steady and cheering rays are tho delight
of all nations, consoling them in the dark
ness, and making their dreams beautiful."
Dr. Franklin then arose, and with his
usual dignity and simplicity, said :
4 , OEonGE WAsutNoToN.— The Joshua
who commanded the Sun and Moon to
stand still and they obeyed him."
fIrA friend of ours thus eulogizes his
musical attainments—l know two tunes, the
one is Auld Lang Syne—the other isn't—l
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we.
A DOCTOR AS 18 A DOCTOR,
A self-sufficient humbug who took up
. the haleness of a physician, arid pretended
to a deep knowledge of the healing art was
once called to visit a young man afflicted
with apoplexy. Bolus gazed long and hard ;
felt his pulse and his pocket, looked at his
tongue and his wife, and finally gave vent
to the following sublime opinion:
"I think he's a gone feller."
"No no!" exclaimed the sorrowing wife,"
do not say that."
"Yes," returned Bolus, lifting up his,
hat and eyes heavenward at the same time,
"yes, I do say so; there are't any hope, not
the leastest smite; he's got an attack of
nihil fit iu his lost frontis—"
"Where?" cried the startled wife.
„ In his lost frontis, and he can't be cured
without some trouble and a grcat deal of
pains. You see his whole planetary sys
tem is deranged, fustly, his vox populi is
pressin' on his advalorem; secondably, if
not more; thirdly and lastly, his solar ribs
are in a concussed state, and he ain't got any
money, consequently he must die.”
Elizabeth Parker's Case,
It will be remembered that some time
previous to the abduction of Rachael Park-'
er, the colored girl, from Chester county,
by McCreary, that her sister Elizabeth dis
appeared and could not be found. A girl
of her appearance and age had been taken
to Baltimore, under another name, by this
same McCreary, under pretext of her being
a slave, and delivered to the pretended
owner, who sold her to a slave dealer, and
the latter sent her to a dealer in New Or
leans. Some philanthropic individuals in
Baltimore, who deserve the highest praise,
have been unremitting in their efforts to
ascertain the identity of the girl sent to
New Orleans, and we learn they now as
certained to a moral certainty that she is
no other than Elizabeth, the sister of Ra
chel. She was taken from Matthew Don
nelly's, in the south western part of Ches
ter county. Some seven or eight citizens
of Baltimore have entered into a bond of
$l5OO, to pay all counsel fees, and other
expenses of bringing her back from New
Orleans to Baltimore, to have a trial for
her freedom. Mr. Schoolfield, the person
in Baltimore who claimed Elizabeth as his
slave, had agreed to this arrangement some
time since; and at the last advises the
friends of the girls entertained the hope
that he would ratify it. The State ought
to make common cause of both these ca
ses.—Village Record.
A REMARKABLE MAN.—The German
town (Ohio) Emporium has an obituary
notice of Mr. John Shafer, who died in that
vicinity on the 24th of March, aged sixty
two years. The notice concludes with
these surprising statements :
The deceased was the largest man we
over saw. The coffin was sufficiently large
to contain five men of ordinary sue; meas
uring in width three feet four inches in the
clear, and three feet in height. Three men
could have worked in it . at the same time,
with convenience. It required six men to
take him from the bed on which he expi
red. This was done by raising a platform
—removing the head-board of the bedstead
and taking him out end-wise. They could
not get the coffin into the house, but by ta
king off the door-facing of an old vacated
house that stood in the yard, they got it
into that and carried the corpse thither on
three empty bags. A wagon and four hor
ses stood prepared, and ten men placed the
coffin and its contents upon it. In letting
clown the coffin into the grave, they had
two lines doubled—one at each end and
one large well rope in the middle; and sev
enteen men to let down this great sprinkle
of mortality into its last home on earth.
His weight was not known.
WItEAT.—The amount of wheat and flour
in store on Lako Michigan, according to a
'correspondent of the Milwaukie Sentinel, is
less than in any Spring sines 1845; and is
less than one-third of the quantity in store
at the same place on the opening of navi
gation iu 1849. In that year the amount of
wheat alone to say nothing of other grains,'
exceeded 2,000,000 bushels; au amount
greater by one half than that of all grains
onnthimui thin VOA,
NUMBER 18.
STEAMIE ATTEMPT TO COMMIT Sig.
CIDE.-A Frenchman, resident in London
recently conceived an entirely new style of
self-destruction. Ile first bought an egg
in the ivarkct, extracted its contents (by
('suction')' and filled the shell with about
three ounces of gunpowder. Then going
into a very crowded thoroughfare—me pre
sume to give eclat to his enter rise—lie
placed the infernal machine Wsuouth,
and 'touched it off' with a match. Instead,
however, of blowing his head to atoms, the
powder, when ignited, merely poured forth
a stream of fire and smoke from'the aper-.
tore in the shell, but without doitig any
serious harm to the man. The astonish
ment of the passers-by at beholding a hu
man mouth suddenly become the crater of
an active valcano, may be imagined. Theo
disappointed man was taken into custody
by the police, and conveyed to the hospital.
HANDBILLS IN NEWSPA.PERS. —There
is a law, not generally understood, which
prohibits the circulation of handbills by
enclosing them in newspapers. The law
was passed in 1825, and the penalty for
each offence is forty dollars; yet it is scarce
ly ever heeded by publishers in the coun
try. The Postmaster of Rochester re
cently received a note from the Post office
Department, directing him to "exercise vig
ilance in seeking to discover any violation
of the law, and notify the Postmaster Gen
eral of any case that may come to hie knowl
edge, to the end that he may direct him
to prosecute the violators." Take heed
you who have offended.—Buffalo Com.
Adv.
WHAT A COUNTRY l—The Cincinnati
Commercial piles up the agony and goes in
with a rush, in a shouting paragraph as fol
lows:
"We have the longest railways and tele
graph lines, the best wives, the fattest chil
dren, the biggest rivets, the fastest steam
boats, the worst police, the most adroit ras
cals the sun ever shone on, and we can put
a chunk of ice in one of hall's safes, chuck
I said safe into Mount Vesuvius, haul it out
after years, and cool a lemonade with the
contents. In short, we are a mighty mass
of conglomerated usefulness, each fragment
doing the best for itself, but all making one
mighty big circumference for the - whole, as
the hunter said when he split a rail for a
ramrod."
INFANTICIDE.—The bodies of two in
fants, wo are informed, were discovered
in Delaware township—one in a' large pond
of water near Stitzel's Lanyard, with a rope
around its neck, and the other under or
near a pile of stones in an open field within
a mile or two of the same place. The in
quest had hardly adjourned their setting on
the first case until they were again sum
moned to pass their verdict on the second.
The inhuman mothers will without doubt
be sufficiently tortured by the serpent tooth
of conscience for the diabolical sacrifice of
infant innocence; but we would like to see
the just vengeance of the law cxecuted
against the murderers.—.llfiltonian.
11 - Crimehas alarwhigly iuoreaaea in this
oity within the past month. Hardly a night
passes that the most daring burglaries are
not perpetrated in some part of the city,
and notwithstanding the violence of pub
lie opinion against the robbers, and the
certainty that if caught in their acts, the
rascals would iu all probability meet with
instant death, they seem to grow more
emboldened as they continue successful.—
San Francisco Paper.
NEWSPAPER BORROWERS BEWARE.-
The death of Simon Stevens Esq., a re
spectable citizen of Newbury, N H.,- was
caused by a newspaper which ho had bor
rowed, and was carrying Lome, when the
wind took it away.—He chased it through
the drifted snow and died of fatigue soon
after recovering it.
THE COBBLER'S LAST WORDS.-.I feel
that I was weaker each succeeding day,
and that I am fast approaching my cael;—
a few more stitches and all will be oVer—
in heaven there is rest for the weary sole;
—earth bath no sorrow that heaven cannot
heel.' Raving said awl Ire wished, he calm
lv breathed his last.