The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-09-12

not such tiihle as the will Of man would
have conceiyedi but il is such one as tho
wants of wan called for. The acceptance
il has found, alike in ancient and modern
times; with lhs learned and the Ignorant.
he old and tho young-the high and tho
low--,he prosperous and the wfeicl,ed.
shows that il is really adopted in itself, not
10 one country, rye OF class, but TO man;
that i speaks TO the uEchanging wants and
sorrows, and frailiies, and aspirations Of
the human heart.''
| Dr.. Warren, OF Boston, lately communi-
Gated the following among other interesting
particulars in regard to the Siamese twins.
The connecting substance is worry strong
and as nogreat sens:biliiy il can be severe
ly handled without causing pain. No pull
sating vessel can be felt in it. The slight.
est motion Of one is Immediately followed
By the other in the same direction, so that
the same wish seems to influence both: this
is quite involuntary, or n habit formed by
necessity. They always iace ia one di.
rection, standing nearly side BY side, and
cannot without Inconvenience face ia op.
posiie directions. One is rather more in
tellectunl than the other; the most intel.
lectual being rather irritable, the other 10.
| ing extremely amiable.
The connection between these twins
might afford some very interes.ing obser-
vations in ply siology, therapeutics, aud
pathology. There is doubtless connec.
ton by minute blood vessels, absorbents,
and nervous filamen,s, which might trans.
nit the action of medicines and the causes
OF disease. As far as known, any indis.
position of the one extends TO tho oiherj
they are inclined to sleep and eat at tho
same time and in The same quantity, and
perform IN the same manner other similar
acts. II Is supposed that when they are
asleep touching one awakens both, but
when awake, an impulse given to one does
not eiIec,,he other. The slightest move.
ment ofone is so soon perceived by the
other, that a careless observer nigh, think
they acted simultaneously. No part seems
to have = perception common to both, ex.
cept the middle Of the connecting substance
and its neighborhood; for when an impres.
sion is made at this part il is felt by both,
while beyond this space it is felt only by
the one OF the side TO which it 10 applied.
From the limited vascular and nervous
connection that can be discovered. DR.. War
rem supposes that the Influence Uf medicine
transmitted from one to the other, would be
inconsiderable; and the same would apply
to most diseases-for instance, 4 slight fe-
yer would not probably extend from one to
the other; VIII lie diseases, communicable
through the absorbents or capiilnries, las
small pax) would be readily transmitted
The bea,ings Of both hearts coincide exects
| ly, as also the pulses, under ordinary cir
cumstances; il one exerts himself without
the other, his pulse alone will be quickea1
ed, while The latter is unchanged. They
bres'be also exactly together.
This harmony in corporeal functions
would lead US to ask 'if there be similar
harmony in the intellectual functions, il
they are iden,icaIly the same persons.
There is no reason TO suppose that their in
/ iellectua operations are sny more The same
than they world be in any two persone1
confined together, educated under similar
circumstances, and with similar habits aud
tastes.
Then would come the question whether
ihey couu ue separated Win saIcsy. IeIs
haps such an operation would not be neces-
sarily fatal, but the peritoneum may be con-
tinuous from one tothe other, and the open4
ing Of this great serious casi,y might be at.
tended with dangerous symptoms. Should
one die before the other, it should be i'm.
media,ely performed, but no surgeon would
be justified inattemp,ing such an operation
to free them from nero Inconvenience
which Inconvenience, If we nav believe
the reports of their domestic affairs and
flourishing condition in worldly goods, is af1
ter all Of no very great consequences.
THE MARvELs OF CALIFORNIA. - Henry
A. Schooicraf,, Of Sacramento, California,
is now on visit to his relatives in Albany.
He is about twenty. five years Of age, and
went out to California as a private soldier
in Col. Sievenson's regiment. After his
discharge from the United States service
he obtained employment as book keeper for
Captain Suffer, aud has since accumulated
an estate valued at S35O,O0O. While ia
Captain Suffers employ he had at one Tins
the paying off ofsix hundred clerks and SUR
yeyors,n mot one Of whom received less than
thirteen dollars per day. He states that
during his stay with Capt. Sutter $l5,s