Litchfield enquirer., 1832-04-05

will leap and eaten t1e lower branch Ot a tree and climb to the top, hand over hand, with out apparent exertiOn. In deseending, they throw themselves into the midst of the branch es, and gain the ground immediately without injury. They swim the most rapid rivers without fear of the numerous alligatOrs, which they will attack, and destroy in the water with their mandOws. Their personal cOmbats are dreadful; they have no idea of fear, and fight until they are cut to pieces.- Indeed their astonishing strength, agility, and peculiar method of taking care of themselves, are, such, that sm firmly of opinion good European swOrdsman would stand little chance with them. have beenprrsent when ~Selgie has taken two campongs: the inhabit- ants were surprised, and the fighting conse- quentIy all on one side. but in a few instances resistance was offered. I did not observe them attempt to parry the blows, with their weapons. The blows were either taken on the shield, or cOntrived to meet the bamboo cap. As the men of the campong had DO tune given them to cover themselves, they
 were easily cut down. The noise is terrific during the massacre: (it can be called nothing else) and joined iD by all the Rajah's women. who accompany him in his excursions.
 was always stationed amongst them far from any danger.
 Report ofthe Cholera in the '. States.-The following account ofa case uf disease. suspect ed-of being the Cholera. is given in the Port land Courier of last Saturday. Tupsham is port town in Lincoln county, on the An. drOscoggin, short distance from the sea, and about 24 miles N. East from Portland, according to Greenleaf's map.
 The citizens of Topsham and Brunswick have been thrown into great excitement by a supposed case of spasmodic cholera, which occurred at TOpsham three or four days ago i; and the question does not yet seem to be sat- isfactUriIy settled, whether it was the cholera or not. We have cOnversed with Dr. MeKean. who attended the patient, and gather from the conversation the following particulars :- When he was called to see the patient, girl about dozen years of age, he found her in extreme distress, great prostra1ion of strength, violent vomiting. very livid countenance, low pulse, and coldness at the extremities. The family could assign no cause for the sickness, and the patient herself was too feeble to give any account of the matter. The doctor first thought the disorder might have been caused by something she had eaten. He prescribed as he thought the case required, and left. On retiring he was asked by neighbor what he thought the matter was. He replied that he concluded it was something she had eaten, but added, if the cholera was any where in the neighborhood, he should think this was case of it. Upon which he was not little surprised to be told by this neighbor, that brother of the girl had just got home from sea, and had been sick with the cholera at Hamburgh.
 He immediately returned to the house, and inn RnH int d. Al, young man had been at home eight or ten days; that he was sick with the cholera at Hamburgh that the mate of the vessel also had it that an English vessel lying by the side of them lost the greater part of her crew with it; that they returned by the way of New York, where they said nothing about the cholera. and entered without performing quarantine or having the vessel cleansed that the young man then came home to Topsham bringing his chest of clothing. &c.,; that the clothes which he wore while sick were in the chest. and had not been clcansed that this very girl was the first who opened the chest, handled the clothes, and took up a garlic that was in the chest and bit it.
 The mother had also been affected with nausea on handling and washing the clothes. Dr. McKean then called in Professor Mussey for consultation.
 Many ofthe symptoms Ofthe patient were so like the cholera, and the facts stated above SO suspicious, that tho case might well be startling one. The patient, however, under the medical treatment she received, began to be better in few hours, and though she had slight relapse the next morning, she is now nearly recovered. No other case has occur red Or any circumstances calculated to in- crease the alarm. The medical gentlemen who attend, although they do not feel entire- Iy satisfied as to the nature of the disease, gi"e it as their opinion that there is no cause for any further alarm.
 Later accounts represent that this report about the cholera is unfOunded.
 7he Je,0eis of the Princess of Orange.-It will lJe recolIected' that Mr. George B. Ray mOnd, one of our police marshals, was depu-' ted by the Dutch minister last summer to proceed to England for the purpose of arrest who made their escape from this country with a portion of the jewels of the Princess of Orange. MT. Raymond having succeeded in arresting the fugitives at Liverpool, pre- ceeded with them to Holland. We have seen a letter from hin dated at Hague. Jan. 22d, which states that he has succeeded in discovering the spot where the largest part of the jewels were buried by Carrara at Brus. sels, and ih disinterring the whole of tliem.- He had the satisfaction to deliver them him. self into the hands ofthe princess, in the pres- ence of all the royal family. He had to con tend with great difficulties in passing and ~aosn th.A RolO Al