Litchfield enquirer., 1839-07-18
WHOLE No. 6ss.
Fr0m she Phila1elpAia Mor1h A.n.rinna.


 From the PkIa9elpAia Norsh Aassricaa.
 Mhat mas become of the twenty or thirty millions expended in the Florida war This question IS often asked, but not so often as it snouId DC. Did our people see the money tuAen rom their pockets, they would ask the q@esuon 10 some purpose. The great body ot our citizens, who are labourings to support tnelr families, and arc grooming under the , nlgh prices of the necessaries of life, do not renect that they are paying a portion of their earnings to meet the reckless expenditures ] ot government agents, and to fill the pockets : of greedy contractors. The revenue paid at the Custom House is supposed to come in : some mysterious way from the bosom of the deep, instead of being drawn day by day
 from the purse of the frugal consumer. 1t goes as mysteriously as it Gdmes, and if Con- gress aPProptiates few millions, we notice 1t aS much us we should notice the passage of an empty resolution. or the appointment of 9 committee.
 What has become of the twenty millions! shrcwd Yankee goes to Florida with lits tie steamboat which he has bought from one 0f our rivers for seven thousand dollars, and ihe U. 5. Army pays him three hundred, ,dol- lars day for the mere use ofthe boat, agree- lng to return the boat in as good condition as when 1t was taken. The boat is employed at this rate from October to June, and Ut tho
 
 Treasury Sercnty- taO0 thousand dollars, the boat being returned in good repair. During d part of this time, the boat lies at wharf, while the Captain, who was sent to return it | to its owner, is having a drunken frolic {; and meanwhile the government is paying for it three hundred dollars a day !! In addition to this three hundred dollars, the crew must be paid. fuel provided, &c. &tc. The boat ap- proaches a wood pile wood must be had and now is the time for a fine draught on the Treasury. Ten times the value fthe wood is a moderate charge; the money is paid and tho boat moves on. At the same rate are other purchases made and labor employ- cd and the patriotic dealers who thus sup- ply the government are greatly saddened 1 that the honor of the nation should be wound. ed by any thing like relinqnishment of the Florida war. .o
 This is not fancy. it is history-atI3 we have it'ffOm the mouth ofan intelligent gem tleman in Florida. and whose account merits tho highest confidence. From the same source we learn (what might have been we'll enough conjectured) that the movers of tho excitement respecting Gen. Macomb's treaty, are chiefly men who furnish, directly or indi- rectly, the supplies of the army, and the means of carrying on the war.
 We have stated theSo facts us throwing light on the question what has become of; the twenty millionsw That peculiar cir cumstances may sometimes render such ex- penditures unavoidable, will not be doubted. But the history of the Florida contracts and purchases would probably do little credit to the financial skill of the government agentss If fsuch apology were offered.
 Bronchiis.-We have read what little has recently been written upon both sides of this question, and in our poor opinion nothing can be more impotent than the attempts making by the sticklers. for continuing filthy and loathsolne habit, to extenliata the use of the vile tobacco plant. In the first place, we de- ny the existence of bronchitis, " as a pecu-' liar and independent disease,' Ut least to any thing like the extent supposed. We have the best medical support for the opinion, that in great majority of cases this bronchitis or diseasc of the throat, is purely imaginary. preach great deal too much-using their lungs and their throats as though the first, were composed of India rhbberJ and the oth. | CT of brass. They become excited and ner. | vous, their throats are irritated by over.ex- ertion, they find themselves hoarse, and | forthwith imagine that they have cgugh "the' consumption of the throat" whereupon they must be off to the south-to St. Croix--to Flu. rope; and that nothing is so excellent for such a disease, as to steam their neckS over the crater of Vesuvius. Cases have been stated 10 us of clergymen coming to this city for medical treatment for this disease I when nothing more than temporary irritation of tho organs was the matter with them. On their arrival, they would wheeze like an asth. matic horse, while they could not raise their voices above whisper for the world. And yet, on examination, no organic disease could be discovered. Tn such cases, Q little we'll directed satire has served to restore tho voice. while few weeks of repose after extra ex. ertions, have restored the health. But we have travelled from the point at which we set out--the use of tobacco for the bronehais In support of our negative,we will merely state the fact, that we Yesterday heard one of our | best physicians, himself a confirmed and in- ordinate tobacco-chcwer, prescribe absfi- hence from the use of tobacco as the first step in cure of bronchitis.-N. Y Com. f&R - PBsENoIoeY. following letter from J.Q. Adams to Dr. Sewall, of Washington, 1 who has recently published two lectures orl Phrenology, is highly characteristic
 WAsHNGTor,5 April, 1889. ] Dr.. Thomas Scwall, WGshingtOn:
 Dear Sir l have read with great satisfiac. ton your two Lectures upon the Science of Phrenology, which have never Teen able to prevail upon myself to think of a serious spe- culation. have chased it with alchymy,' with judicial astrology. with GugMrst t-and. 1s Cicero say $. that he wonders how two Roman augurs could ever look each other in the face without laughing, have felt something of the same surprise. that two learned phreilol- ogists can meet without the like temntntions.
 But as it has been said of Bishop Rerk. leys anii-material system, that he has dem. onstrated beyond all possibility of refutation. what no man in his senses cnn believe so without your assistance, should never have been able to encounter tho system of thirty three or thlrty-hye faculties of the immortal soul, all clustered on fha hlina sida s,c ai.c.