Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-11-11
Wing upon this very question, that We have spoken

wing upon this very question, that "e us'e 'PoA'A
We are too ap. to make aliens Of the best CT
tizens. We permit our feelings 10 regard ~
men. to become circumscrlbed. IL ci"Lsn
shall not happen to belong to our State, we
speak not of Pennsylvania only; the 'eeMhg
common to ali.) no matter how eiesa'e1 ns ma!
be in character, or how usetui 20 Tue ovur"J'
we are too apt to think Of and teei to"afos nun
No ,t,anger! We think this feeling ought to
h. correctsd. That other feeling should be cu!'
t;y.,ed which leads to the contemplation OF any
gifted and virtuous citizen, as the property o.
he nntion-and as rejecting no less honor by
his acts. upon other States, than the one IN
which he NAV happen to have been born.
Nothing Is SO fatal to our happiness as one
GREAT family, to the harmony OF its Individual
members, and to Liberty, as is that spirit wh'cn
would set metes and bounds to our admiration OF
the great and good. ..;.L
ourselves dishonored IN hailng from IT, unless,
indeed, we were allied to all the contradtct'ohS
and somsrsets Of the Richmond Enquirer. But
though not Of, or from Virginia, if we know our,
selves we feel as proud Of her Washingtons, anu
Jeffersons, and Mad;sons, and Monroes, ana
Barbours, as though we had drawn our hrst
breath, and lived all our days, in that State
II is in this view Of the subject. knowing Mr.
Barbour, as well as we do, that we rejoice to see
sketches Of his lie and character placed before
the public. All such sketches, when they relate
to goodness aud virtue, are useful-and they aod
to the stock of renown TO which our great men
have SO largely contributed, to make our country
glorious.
We 90 for the American principle-not that
which is sectional. ~ am an american c'tlze1'
ciatin American
can make-not am Virginian, or PennsylVa'
MAN, &c. &c.-PhH Com Her.
Among our late foreign extracts was an aru'
Gle recommending quick line as an excellent
lather for taking of the beard. cSrresPon'
dent of the Hull Register, complains bitter
" of the results Of an experiment which ne
was induced to attempt, from that puocatiop'
He observes though find it will remove the
beard, have TO my pain and sorrow discovered
that it at the same time removes the skin along
with it."-Phi. Gaz.
From SpAIN-Tbe brig Potomac, Capt.
3 Hitchcock, which sailed from Gibraltar on the
: 1st of October, has furnished Gibraltar papers
e to the ,2sth of September inclusive The de-
e tails have reference, almost exclusively, to the
progress and extent Of the cholera. Its preVa
- ience in Seville and Cadiz was very alarming.
and the fatality great. 1t confused also to rage
in Huelva, Ayamonte, Triana and BadaJoz; ou
although it has evidently stricken terror into the
= minds Of the Spanards, il has fallen lmmeasu
rably short of the destruction experienced froU
= its presence in NeW.Orleans, aod many othe
), places IN this country.
A ROYAL order promulsed on the 18th Sep
= TENDER, from Madrid. prohibited the entranc'
. into the ports OF Spain, Of all vessels coming
: from the rivers Guadiana and GaudalquiVel
AT Nrar6h, anu "
seven days observ alton in the said ports of suci
:, as shall arrive from the remaining ports Of TIT
- Southern coast OF Anda lusia, between Gaudal
culver and Algeclras and Gibraltar both ports
s included.-N T. Com
y Durability 9fMs Msane.-The sprin6eld Ga
. zette states that 1873 patients have BEEN received
at the Worcester Hospital during the nine month.
since its establishment. and that eighteen of these
have been discharged CURED The vast impor
lance of institutions like this, we'll managed, anC
the still greater importance Of their being avalled
{ OF promptly By the community in new cases o.
8 INSANITY, cannot possibly be overraed. There
are probably from $4,000 TO 5000 insane per
sons in the twenty four States. There we're es
: timated to be 1000 in Connecticut alone in the
pear 1919 anu according I'D the census OF go,
there were 8l9 lunatics and l421 ideots in New
York. which was considered by physicians much
below the average. In this Commonwealth j,
has been reported to the Legislature, during the
current year, that in 6S towns, containing much
less than half the whole population, there were
s79 iunatics and ideots confined in jails, aims.
houses and houses of correction, about one Of
this class Of the insane to every 1000 Inhabitants
There are $4,000 insane in England to popu
lation Of twelve thirteen millions AID it is be
!, lieyed that our proportion is greater than theirs.
We speak of prompt application to the Hospi.
tai as OF the utmost Importance. As DR.. Brig
ham, in his appendix to Spurzheim, observes, an
eminent physician, in his evidence before the
Committee of Parliament, in 1889, averred that
nine out of ten cases of insanity recovered, if pa.
ced under his care within three months from the
attack. DR.. Burrows stated in 1890, that of re.
cent cases under his care, 81 in 100 recovered;
and in 1928 he adds, that the subsequent annual
reports Of various lunslic institutions, a nd his