Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-08-09
ALEXANDRIA, Cd. c.
THURSDAY MORNING. aUGU ST 9. 1852


ties and physicians, and had an opportunity Of
seeing the Cholera in all its stages, and under b.
different modes of treatment
| He requests US again to recommend, and pres;
upon our citizens, the necessity of attention +,
general cleanliness-to press the importance If
keeping not only streets. but lanes, alleys, yard,
cellars, SC. &C., as clean as possible. Wher
the disease RACES most in Philadelphia, is in Ii,
dirtiest quarters Of the city, and amongst h,
lowest and most abandoned part Of the pOpuI,.
, ton. The Arch. street Prison was in a wre,cheJ
conditon-,he prison itself filthy. and the pri
soners the oulcasts OF society. His expcrieDt,
confirmed all the previous reports-that drunk
ards, Migrants, and dissolute wretches, are Ii.
victims of the disease. Where it occurs in o,he,
instances, its origin may be traced to over.ewr
ton, imprudence IN eating or drinking, Or Ols
causes which might have been avoided.
The disease, he is convinced, is not contagious
The premonitory symptoms have been heretof,,
correctly described. 1t is malady, when pro-
perly attended to, and its first approaches regard
ed, in his opinion, entirely within the powers
medicine. The cleanly. the temperate, the pu
dent, he thinks, have little or nothing to fear
If these should be attacked, physician shont
be called in, at once, and the proper remedies ap
piled. These, with good nursing, vii! eject III.
cure.
He strongly advises personal cleanliness q
is necessary that strict attention should also b.
paid to food, clothing, SC. Ir short, adopt al
measures that universal experience has proved
be beneficial to health on all occasions, aud avoid
those which are admitted to be hurtful. rbsh
the proper course.
We have hastily sketched the above, and erf
that the Board of Health will be furnished, MI
pleasure, with all information on the sub,tt
which DIR. GRYMEs can impart.
Dinner 10 Judge Cayton.-By the GreensAs
Southern Sentinel, Of the 2Sth uIt., we perceive
that the citizens Of Laurens District, South Ca
rolna. gave public dinner to Judge A. S. Clay
ton, Of Georgia, on Wednesday. the 2jth u'
Judge Clayton addressed the assembly (~hlchn
variously estimated at from twelve to fifteen hun
dred persons on the all absorbing subject Of tt
tariff; and strongly advocated the doctrine of uuI
LITIGATION. In concluding, he said: You uI
naturally inquire what is to be done? Submit
Certainly not. No freeman will submit 10 It,
1 advise, then, the most peaceful remedy. a%
strange as to some it may seem, / advise NrL
LITIGATION"
He then gave the following toast:
8. The late tariff act-It Is now plain case
LIBERTY or SUBMISSION! He that d.,
lies is bastard, he that doubts is damned"
Latest from Madeira The brig Admittancs
Captain Smith, which sailed from Cadiz on The
2Olh Of June, 10 lat. SO 10, long. % 26, spoke
British packet, the captain of which stated that !
the English had taken possession Of the island }
Madeira.
Port.au- Prince AN arrival at New ioh
gives some further facts in relation to the hr /
which occurred at Port -au- Prince on the 9Th o. |
July. 1t is stated that the houses in sixteen 60 |
tire streets were on fire: those in fourteen 'r
wholly destroyed, and those in the two oher'r
very nearly so. Notwithstanding it was sand'!
and the country people for ten miles round "e'
generally in the town; notwithstanding the IH'' !
tary corps Of Port-au. Prince had just paradedr' !
fore the fire commenced. all their efforts to stop
it proved Intellectual, and it only ceased in cOn''
quence Of having nothing more to CONSUME
More than thousand people are without 'ns'
ter. and the place is said to have the appeafa'"
of a town taken by assault, in which the comO'' |
ants disputed their prey and their booty IN ever
street.
Harana. Papers from Havana to the l9'h''
have been received at New York. They conl' 1
nothing of interest On the 18th. in obed'eo'' I
to the command of the KING Of Spain, rc!'.O'
services were observed for the delyerance oil r' /
Island from the Cholera.
Governor MetcsIfe, Of Kentucky, has recon-
mended the observance Of Saturday, 18th ns'r
as day oil fasting and prayer in reference '0a'