Washington telegraph., 1846-04-01

ESTABLISHING THE SCIENCE.
BY EvERPoIxr.

will be written, OF course. 1he disciples
Of Calico, Harvey, Jenner, &c, have been
exac,ed in their struggles and suffering. and
,bose of Mesmer even more brightly will
slime in nartyrology. Seriously the trials
=, which travelling Mesmerists are put 20.
are at times, humilliating and painful
orouqh, albeit, they afford infinite sport to
rnbeIievers. These travelling Professors"
or many OF them, are charataus thus far:
that they pretend to treat scientifically.
rLo,omena, the real nature Of which they
are entirely ignorant OF; and Tie study of
,ybich. they are, neither by education, hab-
!, or aim, at all fitted for They aEe char
iatans. in that their superficial knowledge
cfmere effects, is simply made available in
The shape OF erhibiIicn; and the success of {
tbe show being their first object, they may
be suspected, perhaps, in some cases ot a
little management" At the same tIme'
the vulgar idea of general COLLISION, which
prevails among those who wlll not the m
selves, experiment, would be ridiculous, Il
it were not Pitiable-
De Bonneville had been eiectrliyInS DE
,roit bv his more than gGlUaRic effects upon
the muscles of scores OF his impressibles,
,vben.a an enormous sized Wolverine, try
Inc I,.s r..sii,ss .ii,s,. Z Ais.sis f.snl -Aas lie was
1uite equal 10 the professor, in setting folks
TO sleep and ''u.al1in ON em cut up after
wards, and accordingly, in the ttiror of his
discovery, of he went into the country TO
lecture and diduso the new light which had
been dispensed to him. His success was
tremendous: town and village said there
was something in it, until his reputation,
as in other cases, begat him enemies. The
Wolverine Mesmeriser, after astonishing
"Halr' full, one evening, at some very
promising town, or other, and which bade
fair, shortly, 10 be '.quite place" returned
to the tavern, to be arrested in the bar-room
by score of "frst citizens" who had then
and there conggegated '.jest to test The hum
bug, any howl"
Good evening, Perlesser," said one.-
Won't you take a little OF the fu'dl. said
another, and this being an evident hint IN
the way OF Joke, the ''anIi-humbugs" pro
ceeded to more serious business.
"Perfesser." said the principal speaker,
a giant of a lellow-betore whose proper
lions, even the huge Magnelizer looked
small, "Perlesser, said he, biting of the
end of plug" and turing it over in his
Jaws very leisurely, "a few on US, here, hev
Just concluded to hev you try an experiment,
appinrn' ourselves reg lar constituted
committee to report!'
The prclessor begged TO appoint more
proper place and hour, 6oc., or, according
10 the ..apprehensions OF The crowd, eeInc-
ed the expected desire 10, make ''c.ean
back out.
'.Perlesser," >" resumed the big dog, "ef
we onlusjand riglt, you call your lesmer-
ism 're-meeju agent, which means l
pose. that it cures tIings!'
The discip.e uf science referred to divers
cases about town, in which he had been
successful, to say nothing o. The pulling
teeth" operation, wA.cA As had JUS, con-
cluded his lecture with.
Yes" said the challenger, YOU'RE
death on teeth. we know, bui ken Mes
merism come The re NEE q. oyet rheuma-
tizl"
''Inlaamatory or chronicl'' demanded
the Professor.
wall, stranger, we amt much given to
doctors bottle names but we reckon It's
about the wust kind.
The Mesmerizer was about 10 define the
difference between inaamatory attacks and
local affections, when he was Interrupted
BY the inquisitor, who rather allowed thai
as far as the locality OF the disorder was
concerned, ii had pre- eInption right 10 the
hull critter, and that, furthermore it was
lest expected OF him tina. he should forth
with visit the case. and bid him take up his
bed and walk, or he himself would be es-
corted out Of town, asiride Of rail, with
the accompanying ceremonies. This was
a dilemma either hJrn of which, promised
a loss to his reputation, but the crowd were
soemnly in earnest; already triunphing IN
his detection they began 10 look wJlAsh at
him, and wise at each other, 50 that the
Wolverine had nothing let for il, but to
demand boldly to '.see the patient" We
had better give the rest Of the story as
it was related to a humorous friend OF
ours, by the disciple OF Mesmer, himself.
s.Up stars went with EN-, mad as ,hun-
der. tell you; first being thought u hum
bug, and next that my individooai share OF
the American eagle shOald be compelled
into a measure, By lhunderi I'D q gin 'em
a fight, if it hadn't ben for the science,
which would a suffered any how, so jest
said to myself, let 'em bring on the rhed>
matizerl | felt as if could MesmeTized
a horse, and | determined whatever the
case might be, I'd make it squeai, by thun
der!
tHere he is,' and in We ali Uundfed INTO
room, gathering round a bed, with me
shut in among EN-, and the cussed big on
enlightened heaIhen, that did the talking
drawing out an almighty bowie knife at tie
same time. That your man. said he.
n L. I, 10.