The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-08-11

| of these turns crank TO which is attached
\ rod regulated in its up-and-down notion
to the lower end of this rod is attached a le-
yer, fastened TO pivot in the centre-and
to the other end Of the lever is affixed the
dasher of common 'churn. We saw it i'll
operation, and merry work did 1t make oft
The owner informed us that not a day trans
pired except the holy Sabbath, in which it
did not perform it's daily task.
Itappcars by the following article from
the Geneva Palladium, that the holy war
which that paper has begun to wage against
the Quacks, by whom some parts of the
country are infested, has drawn upon the
editor wirldwind Of wiath.--Safesman
| The remarks we have made for few
weeks past, OH the subject of quackcry, seem
| to have awakened the ire, and has called
| down upon our heads, the vengeance OF Ger
tain class Of practitioners, y'cleped Root
| Doctors. These gentlemen seem extremely
anxious to appropriate to themselves every
thing that falls from our pen, ON tins subject
and whether from an inward sense of their
own dement's, or not, is best known to them
selves.
Our object, is to hold up tile system Of
quackerv to the world, in its proper colors-
IL
choose to apply things to themselves, we
cannot help it.
The following is letter received from
one of these Root Doctors, copied rer6atim
ef HteratiDa, and affords a specimen of their
knowledge and lcarning:-
Geneva July 23d, 1925.
Mr. John I. Wilson
Sir
request YOU to send by the bearer the
name of the person that you stHe a quack
and what two cases YOU have reference 100
likewise the anther Of the two pieces recent
ly published in your paper x yotvk more
over obligc yours
DAVID ROGERS"
The doctor of roots request MS to send him,
''too likewise" l,y the bearer, the author.
\ rather singularequest.
We had hardly, decyphered the forcgo-
ing, before in came another messenger, with
the following letter, from Il second root doc
tor. In copying it we have been careful to
preserve the spelling and punctuation, but
were unable to make out the name.
'sr--eye Wus mutch astonshcd to red
IN your paper too piesses About rutc docturs
wich is alfalcc YOU nedent consarn yourself
about the rute Dockturs.
you hi larnt dooturs wherrin do the differ
from us they use the same medicine as we
only they give it Il long iatting name But
poke weed is poke weed kali il what you
will you'd better attend TO your own consarns
or you'll fell the Legal steps of the law and
awl the Rute doctis in the cuntryl be at yu
& i'll xix you pleas send an anser by the
Bcar
yours as you Behav"
Accompanying the last letter, was a Ger
tificatc Of the doctors skill from one of his
patients so far exceeds all we have
ever seen before, for ignorance and stupidi.
ty, that We were at first inclined to believe
it the production of some wag. We shall
lay it before our readers next week.
We do not think the above letters require
any comment They speak for themselves
and pretty audibly too.
CURIOUS BONA box has heen presented
to General Lafayette at Germantown, composed
Of five different kinds of wood; as follows:
The Box is turncd from 4 piece Of BAcie
Vai,lut, viii h till 1878, was living forest
tree, standing in front of tho Hall Of lnlcpcn.
lcncc, and had been with other like trees the
contemporaries Of William Penn and the first set
tiers Of Philadelphia. That Group formerly
served as imposing and appropriate conductors to
that venerable building, when standing as it
formerly did, at the utmost verge of City Pop
ulation, When Richard Penn visited Phlldcl-
phia, and was shown these last Hriag vcstigcs
oi his great progenitor's day, he burst into a
flood Of tears The interest to be afforded BY
this wood now IS, that it is the last Of all the
Forest Race, so near the city. The four sec
tons of the circles on the iii arc Us followsto
witt
The Street Gum is another tree of the For
est Race of Penn's days, end the Me Inst pres
cnt living trees SO near the city, (sitve an Elm
still standing ut the n. w. corner Of Schuyl-
kill, Seventh and Race streets,I ii being one
of three or four now standing ON the notliern
side OF Nnestrcet, in front Of Bush IIill.-
Such facts these tend powerfully to i'm
pose upon our consideration, the wonderful
" rapid growth of our American cities from
the rude sylvan, to the cmbclli.hcd City
State.
The Oak is piece of the top hg of a but
ment wharf, (now strange to tell,) located 1t
the junction of IIudson's Alley and Chcsnut
street, in the year 1858, and thcnappcrtaining
to the first Bridge ever made over Dock
Creek. Under this Bridge, replaced by :,
stone ono i'll i69Y, vessels loaded with wood
used to so up to the "conmon landing'' at
the Junction Of lfigh and Fourth streets
The present piece Of wood was found six
feet under the present surface in 1925.
The Elm, is Of the celebrated sIreaty Tree
Of Shackarnaxum, which blew down in 1910,
and a Scion of which isagain ilourishing, dixie
the production of the tabled Phnnix;) in the
western lot oft City Hospital.
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