Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-08-18

From the Hartford Times.
The ScCtt Fever.

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spreading. We begin to believe it il con.
lagious. Since the first public anEounes
: ment Of its appearance in the Spring field
: Republicass, il has extended in various di-
rections and IFS rayages are now apparently
more destructive than ever Il is well
known that the dog days produce some se-
vere, bowel and febrile disorders, but this one
would seem to be Of more malignantfype
than the rest !. Its main diagn0sfic Isl we'll
marked and distinctly defined The victim
is 6rst seized with an emphatic shaking Of
the head. This symptom was, particularly
manifested in the case Of a large number
attacked about the middle Of last June, and
It has since taken The additional form Of a
violent and determined setting of the jaws.
accompanied IN many instances with in
articalate, ominous mutterings The dis
ease is generally cured by change Of diet
and habits on the part Of the patient-by
avoiding hot soups, and other pungent and
unwholeseme stimuan.s.
The following cases. iR addition to sthe
last long list we have heretofore given, have
had The fever and are now eonyalescent:--
ffom tse New York Eyening rost. 81 &
Thomas H. Clay, eldest SON Of the late
Henry Clay, il is stated by the Washington
correspondent Of the Richmond Enquirer,
will not vote for General Scott ; and he
avoWed this determination TO his eminent
father. before his death, tcho .approred of
81. E -. %
Kenneth Rayner, heretofore distin-
guished whig member of Congress from
North Carolina, aman wellkEown through
out the Union. refused to attend Scott
parnacne az halelgh; and 1t Is rumersd
mat ne will take position OF hostility to
ocotrs election probably soon after the
North Carolina election.
William Slade, formerly Governor Of and
member Of Congress from Vermont, and
Titus Hutchinson, formerly Chief Justice
Of that States heretofore eminent wings,
Iepudiate alike General Scott and the plat
form on whcih he stands.
!ndge Edward I. Hill, inelS49 the whig
candidate for Governor Of Georgia, being
requested 10 draft an address to the wings
Sfrhat State. in favor Of Scott, answers:
"Not having obtained my own consent to
vote for Scott, am unwilling to be instru-
mental 10 persnadlng others TO do SO.
David r. Wheeler, well known and
respectable lawyer OF this city, elected by
the wings, 2 lew years since, to the State
Legislature, in which he took leading Pc.
siiion, as we learn from several sources,
will not support General Scott, but feels in-
peiled by patriotic desire for reform and
retrenchmen nj at Washington, to vote for
Frank Fierce.
William S. Parham, for several years
PROMINENT member of the Louisiana Legis-
iature, and one q the whig substitute eGec.
tors in that State, has resigned his electoral
posision because he cannot support Scott =
Mr. Pasham was at the State Convention
that appointed him elecsor, and said then
his name bad better not be used, as he
might not support the Presidential nominee.
Ths Tlii6u,se, in lis sexation, inssinuates
that Mr., Parham may have been bought
with "twosor four negroes But the New
Orleans papers talk ia different strain.
The Bee speaks q the snorti6cation"
CAUSED BY his loss. The Crescfnt, the lead
ing Scott paper says M. Parham 4is one Of