Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1816-02-13
HICH-nAND ID DOiNGS.
FROM ALBANY, FEB. l.


FROM ALBANY, FEB. l.
{" A quorum of the Assembly convened
Yesterday and proceeded 10 the choice OF q
Speaker - he baHo,s collected were III
of which Daniel Gruger, Esq had 81,
and was declared chosen. Col. Van Renssa-
laer had 60 votes, The Clerk OF last year
was reelected AS soon as the House was
organized, petition was presented by Hem
~ Fellows, Of Onisrio, claiming the seat
OF Peter Alien, returned a mtfnber The
grounds of MIR. F's claims, are that he had
an undisputed majority Of the votes OF the
electors; but that the Inspectors OF Elec-
tons, in returning the votes to the county
clerk, abbreviated Lis name, and wrote ie
Hen resiesvs and though the reuirn to
the town ciefK was correctly written. and
proofs flu nished tha, the electors had vo,cd
Tor Henry Fellowes, the county clerk re-
jec,ed the votes, and gave certificate 10
Mr.. Allen, by which he took MS seat The
resding Of TIE petition was objected 10, by
democratic member. who moved to ost.
pone it until the next day. / ass the Speaks
CT declared 10 be in order ard The opinion
of the Speaker was appealed from On
CALI & The roll on this appeal wen Mr..
Aliens name was come to. NJ. Duer ob.
jec,ed 10 his being allowed to vote, he be-
ing directly Interested IN the subject The
Speaker decided he had right 10 vote on
the question, and an appeal being made
from this decision, a debate ensued which
continued through the day, without any
question being taken.
STATE quackery.-An ftalian, while enjoy.
ing good health, must needs make use of
,nos;rums to improve his constitution and
finding himself decaying and ready 10 die,
he ordered the following moni,ion to be en-
craven on his tomb-ston -" .vas well !;
I zuished 10 be better and hre I an"
Of this, the management of the sffairs Of
our country, for the las, eight or nine years,
mas borne near resemblance An 1866,
the country was well, very well indeed.
there were no orders in council, no con-
siderable distractions 10 the American
commerce, which wen, on stnoo.hi.. and
added 10 our general stock Of wealth pleni.
fully But the political quacks who bore
rule, deemed IL expedenf thai the state
should take medicine and accordingly
hey admini,tered fetid drug, cglled
non-importation, which they pr3tssted
would increase health and strength mig hti-
iy. 1t WAS swallowed with vryness oil face
and some little struggling and wriggling
and as i. produced ne violent spasms in the
body, bu, only considerable degree OF LAM
guor, those wiseacres thought that some.
thing more powerful was .eeded sccor.
dinghy, in 1907 g., they administered the
oostrum called Embargo. wrought pro-
digiously The patient so pinned away, that
nothing scarcely remained but skin and
bones and at length, there being some
symptoms Of delirium, the quacks were
glad, for their own safety, to discontinue
the use of that abominable and abhorred
drug. The las: expedient they bethoughe
themselves of was profuse bleeding. They
tried first, non-importation, then embargo,
and finally war ; ell to make the state bet
ter. which was very well indeed when they
FIRST took it in hand. We the people have
gone through The powerful operation pres
cribec tc us, and here ne ore-our losses
srea:-our gain no,hing-our earnings put
in requisition to pay the doctors bills.
Mother Virginia, live forever Be thou,
in all ages to come. the nursing mother of
the states, and do thou continue to provide
them with state physicians so they will
never be in any hazard of dying natural
death. Conn Cnronf