New-York daily tribune., 1842-12-29

:" :. Pennsylvania $4,000
:" Ohio 100000
ludiana.... $50 cGt
a,hia9fs miahisan:.:: M. i9S i5S ,Sai Sot
in Wisconsin Territory 10000
Total. 252 le:
In our next number we propose to take com.
parative view of the progress of population, and
the results which have followed from the English
settlement at jamestown in Virginia, and other
parts of North America.
MEsMERlsM AND SURGERY.-Thc following ex.
traordinary relation is from the London Cores
pondence of the Journal of Commerce:
most extraordinary surgical operation has
been performed, the particulars of which will be
found detailed in a couple of columns OF the Lon
don Morning Herald of the Goth ult. james
Wombell, AZ, a laboring man, had suffered for a
period Of about FIVE years with painful affection
of the left knee joint. He was admitted into the
hospital at yellow, in Nottinghamshire, and it
was decided that amputation should take place
above the knee joint, and it was accordingly done
while the patient was under the influence of mes
meric sleep! On the 1st of October this wonderful
operation thus performed, as given in the
words of the mesmerizer, one Mr.. w. Topham. a
lawyer ofthe Middle Temple, London; :. ] again
an hour told Mr. W. Squire Wood (tbe opera
two fingers of each hand gently in contact with
,a-,alased. eye!;ds. and there kept them
still further to deepen the sleep. Mr.. Ward, after
one earnest look at the man, slowly plunged his
knife into the centre of the side of the thigh
directly to the bone, and then made clear incis-
ION round the bone to the opposite point on the
outside of the thigh The stiffness at this moment
10 oT
the sleeping man alone was heard, for all others
seemed suspended. In making the second incis-
ion the position of the leg was found to be more
inconvenient,han it had appeared, and the opera
tor could not proceed with his former facility.
Soon after the second incsion a moaning was
heard from the patient, which continued at inter
walls, until the conclusion. 1t gave me the idea OF
q troubled dream, for his sleep continued pro-
found as ever. The placid look of his counte
nance never changed for instant; his whole
frame rested uncontrolled in perfect stiffness and
repose; not a muscle or nerve was seen to twitch.
To the end of the operation, including the saving
of the bone securing the arteries and applying the
bandages-occupyng period ofupward of twenty
minutes-he lay like a statue. With strong sal
volatile and water he gradually and calmly awoke
and when asked to describe what he had felt, thus
replied: never know any thing more, CATER his
being mesmerized,) and never felt any pain at all ;
once felt as if heard kind of crounching'
He was asked il that was painful; he replied, No
pain at all; I never had any, and knew nothing
till 1 was awakened by that strong stuff The
crounching was the saving his own thigh BONE
The first dressing was performed in mesmeric
sleep, with similar success and absence OF all pain.
This case is so important that have condensed
its principal features, and when consider the
gravity with which the operation was surrounded,
the numbers who were present, the unquestiona-
Bile rank and responsibility of the professional gel-
temen, and the utter absence of all atfectation,
must candidly admit that scepticlsm Is staggered
and that We are no longer in position to derde
or despise influences so extraordinary, important
and practical. j. ~. G.
From THE SANDWICH IsLASrs.-We have been
favored with the following memoranda of news
from Oahu, to Oct l.
Over 100000 yards of American cotton goods
were lying in store, quite unsalesbe-sreat part
would be shipped TO Valparaiso. Mr.. Frederick
w Thompson, late of Charles,own, Mass. has
been appointed by the native Cover nment to the
Office of high sheriff The law levying duty Of
per cent. on exports of specie had been altered
reducing the same to one half of one per cent.
The British Consul had absquatalGted from Oahu
leaVlaS MS QeOLS unpaid 1 ne American heel c
right whalers' had mostly arrived at The Sandwich
Islands, from tht r cruise the n. w. Coast
They had beenvery successful generally. Severa
vessels had taken 2G00 bbls in four months
Several French and Danish whale ships hac
touched at the Sandwich Islands; the nuaber O
these it is expected will inerease every succeeding
year. Boston Adv.
FIRE AT NEw-HAvES.-About , o'clock OF
Sunday afternoon fire broke oct in the 4th stor,
Of Streets Buildings" The block extends so t
100 feet ON Chapcl-s,reet, and nearly as much OF
State-strest. The roof and upper story of the en-
tire block were destroyed or damaged, and ih'
lower stories we're drenched with water Th
damage TO the building is estimated at s, 1000 t
Sc GOO. Most or all of the occupants were insure'
A. was also the building. The FIRE originated from
! box Of charcoal in the upper storyi but whethe
from spontaneous combustion, or otherwise, Is no
ascertained. The outer walls of the building ar
but little injured.
| N The Malay boy, who disappeared on Sun
day nigh. Of last week, from the ship safaeen, !
ing at Boston, was found at Chelsea oeach .
Friday morning, badly frozen ltappears; he 700
a beat and weas to Chelsea, probably not knoW'f
where he was going, and doubtless lost his wa
He was taken 70 the hospital.