Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1842-10-06
Temperance Meetings.

Temperance Meetings.
We have been requested to give ne
3ice, that Rev. L. l.. HAMMER, Of Har-
risonburg, will deliver addresses upon
the subject Of Total Abstinence, at The
following places, viz:
At Market, on Tuesday evening
next; at Edlnbarg, on Wednesday at
clock; antt will meet the Cold Wcter .4i'-
my Of Woodstock on the same day at 4
clock, ?. ~, and the citizens generally
at early candle light.
II is hoped, that at each Of the above
named places, tie people, and especially
those WHO are opposed TO temperance,
will ait end. that they may hear the sub
ject discussed. And after hearing faith
full Investigation, we feel satisfied, that
The good people of those places will en-
list in this glorious cause;-the most
brilliant reformation that was ever pro-
nulgated, with one exception, in the his.
tory Of The world Come one, come ALL
-scSo-
..Nssns rism-yM. Freach's Defeace.-
In the Enquirer of the s0tb ult.. we find
an address from Mr. French, in which
lie complains bitterly Of the unconrteous
treatment he has received from certain
editors and portion Of the medical ia'
Guilty in Richmond. He SAYS they have
condemned Mesmerism to be a humbug,
and HIN to be an impostor, at least ill.,
ferentiai'y, without investigating the SCI
ence with any degree Of fairness whatev-
err. .iIr. F., however. firm in the belief
that Mesmerism is no llumbug, has deter
mined to give the skeptlcal physicians,
ard those editors in Richmond, who are
bitter 10 their denunclations, fair OPP
par;unity 70 explode, hGnorably, if it can
be done at all, this mysterloos science.
lie makes tie following wager vii! it
be accepted We shall see.
:! will wager one thausaad dollars, that
40 member Of tie Richmond Faculty.
mar any Editor in Richmond, nor even
the little negro boy, who, as report says,
has been taught phre no!osy in hat an
hour, if he Shall oe deemed more apt,
can jn one week be taught to respond
pin euolosicaI!y TO the touch of his or
gans, as did the girl of Mr.. eRltter's.--
lie shall be blindfoded. securely placed
en- roppoyt with some disnterested per-
son, aud discriminate between the touch
Of different persons las did this cir, obey
ing, at all times only the touch of the
same person. This wager shall be open
for acceptance, two days after its publ
cation. and the experiments shall be con-
doctel by the same gentlemen who SUI
per;otended at the public exhibition on
Friday night, who shall have the exclu-
siye power of testing, as they shall think
proper. whether or no the~same expert
weats can be produced by any method of
teaclang.'
Yucotaa-I mpo, fant. -'Fhe following
important intelligence from yucatan. is
from the New Orleans Picayune-
By the arrival at this port yesterday of
the American brig 'robasq zine, Zone OF
the transports taking troops Jor the IN
vasion Of Yucatan from Vera CRUZ we
have the following intelligence, con n
Ell in a letter to merchant in this city,
which was politely slicwn to US yester-
dsy.
The letter was dated Laeuna, 9th Sep
TENDER, al which time the town was in
possession "a thirteen hundred of Santa
Ana's troops. The remainder Of the Yu-
ratan navy, lying at the time in the port
Of Laguna, and consisting OF brig and
two schoonegs, had capitulated with the
town, without resistance.
The troops who were made prisoners
at consisting Of about two hun
deed-were taken BY the Tobasquine to
Campechy.
Tie Mexican force at Lagana was
composed OF one steamer. one brig, one
schooner, and four transports. whlch were
Joined, few days after the capitutation
by the iron steamer Gaudaloupe, recent
Iy built in England.
We sincerely hope that the Mexican
navy may remain few days where they
now are, till Commodore Moore can get
lD;o 'the crowd
A wing stinerant says, that Mr. Clay
will get every state in the union. at the
rext presidential election. Wh-s-e.w!!!