Litchfield enquirer., 1831-04-28
From ,he jourual of He,,l,h for March.

' e USSVS btt~s~@N~~S~HSO 1 rthe WreGf&, an entertaining weekly paper edited By Dr. Lucius O'Brien, and pnb- lished' at Fe.I's POist, tBal,imOre.) for the following sportise DOt'ee of an extendsd and mischievous branch Oi 9uaCkery. The consummate impudence, and >self-satisfSed 1 ignorance of the steam practitioners, would 1 be- irresiStibly comic, us mere ma:ter ot 1 speculative absurdity, did not then, pro1 ceedings involve questions of health a2d life, which are comprised by these self- styled illnminati. We shall .endeayor, ere long, to show them up in their true colors. l BALTIMORE, November, 1880.
 Dear Tim: embrace the present op- portauity of writing to you, by Nathan Will kins, who tells su,ee that youtaHd Beckey, aud all the folks is well. and I am glad to say ana IS we'll as reyer: ! was in nsy life: But Tim, I suppose you have been won-
 deripg what came to town for, and what
 I.hsye been doeng these eleven weaks 1;
 why Th1, the fact is, I am lerning the Steam
 Docsoring Business. Now you will hard ly believe mee.when tell you that tn three
 weeks more shall get a certificate from my
 boss. No, that's what [ used to cali Jim
 Vulcan, my old master, and professional man calls his boss a praceptor. We'll, as was saying. in three weaks shall get paper to provo that am able to cure alley kind of sickness whaisomever. So you may advise Docfnf Bolus, and aD D octor Ulna. and Doctor Exastosis, and Doctor Phalangia, -------- ------- and the whole raft ofthenr to get ready and pack up their dudS and bolt of to the western countrey, as intends to doe, all the practice in that part oft'e countrey that they doctor in in fact. don't believe they will want ancy other. doctor in the whole countrey but mee. But Tim you would bee astonshed to see what wonderful doetorihg this Steam Business is ;. its shure to kill Or cure right off, and don't keep people in misery: be- sides, it is so easily larned ; in about three months person cat1 larn to cure ancy dis. ease, and draw teeth in the bargain, aud bleeding besides, (but bleeding is very seldom necessary,) and another thing is, it don't cost so much as the old kind of doct- bring; l don't suppose it will cost father more than one hundred dollors for my-larn. ing to be doctor, that is, counting board, clothes aud all, and have got hrah new suite Of black since have been hl town
 l believe the coat cost fifteen dollars don't tell Beckey though, for I want to surprise her |: she won't call me Chris Blackface when she sees me again, for don't look like I used to doe when was black- smiths Boy no body calls me Chris here, they all call nc Doctor Costivc. t
 But Tim. l tell you what l mean to doc, I'll come out in the countrey, set up an of fee, an I an shure to make forten in no time; besides, I mean to marry your sis- CT Bcckey next spring, and l shall bee the biggest bug in the whole countrey, and tn fact shall be the happiest fellow in the whole .world.-Farewell till see you. Yours, '. CHRISTOPHER CosTlvE.
 To Timothy Trump. '', '.
 Gibbs, the Pirate, has made many in,A portant communications or confessions tO the Police of New York. The details of such life of crime are almost too horrible forrepetitiOtH & .5 ar'#a He stated to Mr. Justice Hopson, that he commenced piracy in the year 1916, in tie shooner Sans Sousie, belonging to the Island of Margarita, and that since that time he has been in several other vessels engaged in the same business. That ma- ny of his comrades are now living in the U. States, but whose names he never would mention: That they had taken iron, many vessels large sums of money, aud va- rious articles of merchandise. He then gave the names of the following vessels. 'a
 Brig Jane of Liverpool, cargo dry goods --crew destroyed, vessel burnt {: brig lname forgotten) of New York, from the Spanish Maine look money from her. crew destroyed, vessel burnt Brig Dclvi- de'e of Boston, taken tn the Gulf--crew and vessel destroyed two French brigs, in the Gulf of Mexico money iaken---ves- sels and crew destroyed: ship Providence of Providence took from her S1O,OOO- sI,e was sufferedt to pass, as Examinant could not consent to kill his own townsmen: ship William of Salem took from her dry goods and money--crew and vessel de- stroyed bark Dido of Bremen took frOm her dry goods-vesseI and crew de- strOycd bark Larkin of London took
 from her large quantity of plate, some gilt edge paper, and from twenty to thirty piano fortes French ship. cargo wine vessel and crew destroyed: the William
 Dawson of New York-boarded her and let her pass; ship Earl of London 1; took from her dry goods and money--yes- sel and crew destroyed: ship Indispensable of London took from her dry goods and mouey-vessel and crew destroyed: a YW e