Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-10-11

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of the second. Man in all civilized Countries,
is beginning 10 think for himself: and horear.
ter he will be guided by reason, instead Of be.
ing governed by power. There is spirit OF
inquiry abroad, which cannot slumber until eve.
ry shnckie which birds the intellect is burst a.
sunder. Truth aud light, emanstng from Hea-
ven itself, must triumph over faisehood and dark.
ness. The miners son Of Eizleben hnsened
the colonization of this mighty republic, by i'm
bung the public mind in Europe with proper
notions Of religious liberty. Political liberty
afterwards became its handmalden aud tho
salutary results from their union emboden tho
timid and the fearful TO speak aoud--to grid on
their ar.nor, and to "go forth conquering and to
conquer" the vices of the world.
BrLwER on THE WATER CuRE.-Tn the neD
Monthly Hegn.ine for September you will find
the cause Of all the excitement about Hydro
pathy, to which have alluded in previous let
ter. The number opens with a long, finely
written and powerful article from the pen of
Bulwer, entitled "ConfesUons and Obssrra-
tions Of a Water Patient"
Buiwer felt that his frame was break
ing under him by constant literary labors, but
as fast as he sought TO escape from them the
reading world demanded farther efforts, till he
was reduced TO mere skeleton; one year since
his constitution was thoroughly shattered-he
tried all the learned doctors, bot their drugs
brought no reieit--he was advised to travel-he
did travel, but still no reef-he accidentally
met work Oh Water Cure-he studied it
found some new and some absurd statements in
| it-he wnnowed tho Whole, separating tho
chat. from the wheat-adopted the advice when
il was not Inconsistent with common sense--re-
! paired TO a Hydropathc establlshment--wen.
through regular course there practised, and
came out entirely renovated in health OF body
and mind. lie then resolved TO give the suffer-
ing world the benefit Of his experience and the
able and interesting article in the New Month
| " is the result lie reminds the editor that he
is employed in preaching up the education of
the mind and negectng the education OF the
physical man--the latter being far more impor-
tant than the former. for without health the:
mind will decay. Buiwer threw physic, how
ever, 10 the dogs, and went to the Hydropatiic
establishment at Malveon. He says that tho
time " i'll come when the drug-doctor will not
be wanted-or there are cases IN which the
Water Cure seems, TO Buwer's mind. 70 he "an
absolute panacea." He goes into these cases
at much ieng,h--in prolonged and complicated
rheumatism the cure is spid and herman nent-
in the case Of goui, it takes up the disease "by
the roots"-in that "wde and grsly family If
afllction" clsssed under the common name ~
dyspepsia, the cure is rapid and certain. tn =
Water Cure can "convert existence from q
burden TO a blessing" Bulwer seys he was
never ,welvemon,h without pain but now he
compares his past and present state to the pow
erty of a man who has a shilling in his pocket
and whose poverty is struggle for hfe, with
the occasional distress Of man OF five thouss nd
a year, who sees but an appendage endangered
or luxury abridged, He says, We ransack the
earth for drugs and minerals-we extract DO
,ons from the deadliest po sons, but around us
and about US NATURE, the great mother prof1ers
the fount uusealed and accessible to all. ma
ture Yields the bengnan, healing" The cold
water fountains are TO be hereafter the gre,
panaceas for the cure of nearly all diseases ths
flesh is heir 10. The influence of Bnlwer,
name will make the subject filydropaihy pop
uar in England and Amerca.-LoaCon cor
Bust. Trareiler.
: Essence OF CorsEr Mr. f, l.. Szadeczs )
the New York Journal of Commerce says, b a.
, commenced in taat city the manufacture o
this article, which he says is already in e:lten
sive use in Europe among the higher cl asses
A quart hottie of this essence costs out tx shig
, iugs, and will make from one to two hund se,
{ cups OF excellent coffee, according to The siza O
the cup, and taste of the drinker.
: lANkEE CuTENEss. selfish custor, obser
I we'd in This city, and indeed in many towns ant
5 other cities, of searcing the records OF the Pro
bate Courts for the amount vt iortu ae possesse,
by the heirs OF deceased parents, and the selec
tion OF wives by young nspiran'.s for wealth &C
, cording to the said records, IS not only repre-
, henslble and mean, but lud .crou. and contempl
e Bile, and places the char .cter OF young men VIII,
{ continue the practice n most unenvable hight
in the eyes of all Pc fsons of nobler views anu
= mature Jndeemen'~ Boston paper.
$ Well, this is romance--,he romance OF Ih
n dollar with . vengeance. So, when youpi
Boston bic Od takes it into his head TO fa IN l"Ve