Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-01-05


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And the House adjourned.
WASHINGTON. Dec %, 1848
SENATE.
Mr. Atchison in the chair. Hon. Edward
A. Hannegan. Senator from Indiana, who has
been for some time detained at Pittsburg by
sickness, resumed his seat in the Senate to-
day. He was most cordially welcomed BY
his brother Senators, of both political parties.
The bill 10 extend the charter of the Wash
lngion, Georgetown and Alexandria Steam
Packet Company was taken up. and the ques-
ton being on its passage, Mr.. Allen asked the
yeas and nays; they were ordered, and the
bill was passed, 26 10 is.
Mr. Bright introduced joint resolution, re-
pealing the clause in the general appropriation
bill OF last session, which reduces the mileage
OF persons appointed n the different States to
deliver at the seat of government the votes of
the electoral colleges for President and Vice
President from rs 10 l24 cents
MIR Breese said thai, from an examination
which he had made, it appeared that 25 cents
mileage had been allowed as far back as 1902,
and he shout vote for the present bill with
great pleasure.
The joint resolution was then read the third
time and passed.
Inc Senate then, in pursuance Of resolution,
took up the private calendar, and quite num-
Der OF bills were disposed Of. Adjourned
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The standing committees were called for re-
ports, and number were presented, mostly
unimportant
Mr. Collamar, from the committee on public
lands, reported back the bill heretofore intro
duced by Mr. Vnton. ceding 10 certain new
States, within which public lands are sua,
tod fho I r
gwen TO the State of Ohio, for purposes of in
ternal improvement, with Recommendation
from the committee that it be laid on the table
The recommendation was concurred in, 81 to
70.
message was received from the President,
communicating the correspondence in refer
ence to the arrest OF American citizens in Ire
land, called for by resolution of The House.
On motion of Mr. Vintor, the House went
INTO committee OF the whole on the state OF
the unlon-Mr Thompson, of Indiana, in the
chair-and took mp the BILL reported from the
committee OF ways and means, to supply the
deficiencies III the appropriations for the ser
vice OF the fiscal year ending 30th June, 1919
Mr. Pollock, OF Penn addressed the com
mittee for an hour, chiefly in reference to the
statements of imports and exports in the Re-
port of the Secretary of the Treasury, to shew
that errors had been made therein. In the
course OF his remarks, explanations of the fig
ures were made by Mr. McIane, but these did
not appear 10 be satisfactory to Mr. Pollock.
When Mr. P. had concluded, MIR Thompson
of Pennsylvania, replied briehy--when
The committee rose, and MIR Vin;on offered
a resolution 10 close debate in committee OF
the whole in five minutes, which was adop.
ted
The consideration Of the bill was then re-
newed in committee OF the whole. and NUN
Der OF amendments were proposed by Mr. Vim.
ton, and agreed to.
One of these, to allow ST per day for a clerk
TO the Sergeant Arms, was amended, on
motion of MIR Root, 80 as 10 deprive that off
Ger of a messenger, if clerk be employed by
him, and in this shape it agreed to-
An amendment offered by Mr. Houston, OF
Del, appropriating $4,000 to refurnish the
Presidential mansion after the 4th of March
next, gave rise TO some debate, when it was
Withdrawn by the mover.
On motion of Mr. Vinton, the committee
then rose and referred the bill and amendment.
to the House. Adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 90.
SENATE.
After the transaction of some uninportan
business,
On motion, it was ordered that when thu
Senate ad journ, it adjourn to Tuesday next.
The Senate proceeded to the consideration
of Executive business. Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Mr. Vinton, from the committee of way!
and means reported the annual army appro
prlation bill, and the annual appropriation bill
for the support of the military academy, botf
of which were referred 10 the committee o
the whole on the state of the Union, and will
the general appropriation bill and The arm,
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the special order for Thursday next, the 4th O
January, and every day thereafter (excep
Fridays and Sa'urdays.) until finally dispose
Of
The House then. in committee of the whole
Mr.. Boyd of Kentucky in the chair, proceed
ed to The consideration of bills on the privat
calendar. Adjourned to Tuesday next
HON. ROBERT j. WALKER ON TIL
CHOLERA.
The Secretary of the Treasury has recent
written a very long letter, detailing 10 ceriai
gentlemen who solicited it, his " experience
in regard 10 the Asiatic Cholera. when it las
visited this country in '32. The mode of treat
ment, in Mississippi, is stated in much min
uteness, but we observe hut very few point
not over and over again embodied in the yer
copious extracts we have given, at differer
times, from the foreign journals, which (pa1
tlcularly those OF England and ScOl!and) hav
been teeming several months past with a
sorts of infallible cures and never-faiIing pre-
scriptions. The Secretary, however, disagree
with the doctors in one remarkable particula
He does not believe in the use of opium, fc
the reason that it fails TO arouse the system
accelerate the action of the caIomel. He higi
iy recommends the practice of DR.. Cartwright
of Natchez, Miss, as follows -
1. To watch the first symptoms of the di
ease, and administer the proper remedies will
out moments delay. 2 To administer foril
with, after the first symptoms, dose compt
sed of ten grains of camphor, twenty grains
red pepper, and twenty grains of calomel,
be taken in powders, if practicable ; if not,
pills. 8. AS soon as the dose was swallowe
to strip the patient and rub him gently b.
cffectually with some stimulating ointment, /
as many hands as could have convenient a
cess, the rubbing 10 he continued so as not
occasion fatigue until the medicine produce
its proper effect,
The cure was chiefly effected by the oper
ton of the calomel upon The liver, in cha
cling the rice wa'er secretions to those usual
prOduced by calomel which generally toe