Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-11-02
From the Richmond Comn;,er

From the Richmond Compiler.
Stammerers.-Mr,. Leigh of New York
and accredited missionaries throughout
the country, are doing great things for
the improvement Of the parts of speech.
There is really, as an agent says, no
guackery in it. How il is done we are
at less TO guess-but that il is easily
done, only excite the wonder that it ha.
not been done much sooner. That it is
done effectually, there can be no doubt.
The thing speaks for itself. So many
have been cured, who were thought TO
be inyeterats stammerers, that every
shadow of doubt vanishes from the sub
ject Men, women and children, are
daily flocking to her establishment, and
others leaving il, to propagate the fact
throughout the country. So great is the
demand, that imposters had started up,
to carry on the business-ana these are
COW about to be superseded by bona fde
agents whom Mrs. Leigh and DR.. Yates
have thought proper to do their com.
missions.
Among the cures effected by their a.
gent in Virginia (tfe Rev. Thomas p.
Hunt,) is that of MIR. H. B. Gaines of
Petersburg. He had been suffering
under habit of stammering, CONTRACT
ed upwards ESQ years ago'-and he
now comes forward to certify that he
was entirely released in three days.n
A Mr.. A. Bryan has addressed letter to
stammerers, in which he states, that he
had been for twenty five years deprived
of social intercourse, and totally unfit
ted fer business by that infirmity-but
that only by four days treatment, he
has been enabled to speak. read and con-
verse with the same facility and fluency
that others do. A correspondent from
New York informs the editor of the
Boston Courier, that he had known some
persons cured, or much relieved by the
instruction of half an hour and even
less! The sketch he gives OF Mrs. Leigh's
personal appearance is really interest.
ing.
"When / was in England some years
ago, lost the opportunity of seeing the
celebrated Mrs Fry, but never saw a
female that came near to the conception
! had formed of that good woman, until
] happened one day to see Mrs. Leigh.
There is much mildness and ease about
Mrs. LIS manners, and peculiar air is
thrown over her personal intercourse
which is connected with deep reflection
and philosophc investigation. She is
the inventor of the valuable system
which goes by her name-and in truth
one could not be half an hour in her
company without being convinced that
she vas woman of a SUPERIOR mind
Numbers of people from ali sections of
the country are continually coming to
be relieved by Mrs Leigh, and in no
instance, believe, do they depart with
out being efiectually cured"
The following is given by correspondent
| OF The Vermont Chronicle, the method is said
to resemble that Of Mrs. Legh's for curing of
this disease:
1t is maxim which | have adopted
from my youth, to give pu bfcity to any
facts, which will, in my opinion, be
conducive to the public good. pity,
from my heart, the man, whose sordid
selfishness is SO great, that he will with
hold from the public, information, which,
if generally known, will promote the
happiness of thousands.
apply this remark to those who were
the first discoveries of the art of curing
stammering people. Shall man de-
mand pay for telling another he may be
cured of disagreeabIe disease; or ra-
Their, how he may be able to overcome
an unfortunate habit Yet such is the
fact that from two TO fifty dollars have
been demanded and received for the
communication of secret which every
friend of man would consider himself
bound to reveal. Permit me, therefore,
in order TO prevent any future exactions
from unfortunate sufferers, to state, in a
few words, the method by which the
cure of Stammerers is effected.
1. Keep the lungs full by frequent
limitations of air. The difficulty consists
almost wholly in the attempt 10 speak