The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-07-25

| lows:
Lord Cornwallis Campaign In Virginia, In 1871;
smyths Travels In vi ginia in 1913, &C.; Gazette
| lana, No. 3; George sanoys; The Good ship Re-
nown, and the rest of the feet; An Old Sword
The Battle OF Bunker's Hill: Various Intelligence;
Miscellany. Among the extracts from the old Vir
gnia Gszette, which was published In Williams
burg under date OF las, notices OF the preach
ing OF Whitfield, the celebrated divine, which we
subjoin:
Williamsburg. December IA, 1889.
We hear from Philadelphia, That the Reverend
Mr. WHITFIELD tthe celebrated Preacher) was ar
rived there from ENGLAND. and bad preach q IN
that City 10 Times, and NEW YoRK Times; that
vast Numbers OF People fockd to hear him apo .io
Churches not being large enough to contain ,ns
Hearers, he had preach d in the open rieds 10 on
10000 People at a Time. He preached al sewers
other Places on his Way TO MAINLAND ana FhI
DAY he preached at ANNAPOLIS, before tue uosei
nor, several of the Council, and great Nun'oer oi
Peops. .
here on his WAY 10 GEORGIA We hear he 10 TO
preach at our Church on SUNDAY ana on s.oNDAf
goes on his Journey.
Williamsburg, December 81, 1888.
| On SUNDAY Morning last, the Rev MIR WHIT
FIELD preached st our Church on the Words,
"WHAT THINK YE OF CHRISTI There was
numerous Congregation, and us tnsught there
would have been many more, II timely Notice had
been given Of his Preaching. His extraordinary
Manner of Preaching, gains him the admiration and
| Applause of most of his Hearers. He is gone to
| Carolina, on his way to GEORGIA; And tbs said he
| intends to be here sgain next APRIL or MAY
The following extracts from the Virginia Gazette,
have strong SAVIOR of the much laudej good old
times"
Under date of Feb. 1st 1879, we have the follow
ing news item "Thst Admiral Vernon is gone with
I sail of Men of War and 500 Soldiers, to Porto
Bello, to burn the ships there"
Under date of May 9, l739-"We have advice
that the ship Hanover, Capt. Churchman, and the
James River, Capt. Kennon, bound from Bristol to
Virginia. are taken and carried into France. There
is report, that the forces which lately went from
N. England, on an Expedition against Cape Breton
are landed near Lewisburg, and that they make no
doubt of soon becoming masters of that place."
John Crswley, tavern keeper, "uho lives near
Williamsburg, close the Road from Mr. For
nesus to town." sdvertises that he will accommo
date customers a. follows: Twenty Pence for
Man and Horse, for Twenty Four Hours; which is
as reasonable as can be expected, or Afforded
We wish our modern Bonifaces would initiate
honest John.
Governor Gooch Nov. 21st-iasues proclama'
| ton summoning the General Assembly, and adds
| sAnd whereas, wicked and horrid rebellion has
| been raised against Sovereign Lord King
George his Crown and Government; it is ordered
by the Cover nor with the advice of his Majesty's
Council, that Wednesday, the 26th day of February
| next, be observed as General Fast and Humilia-
| ton, before Almighty God" &c.
Another proclamation from the same hand, dated
April "a carries back to the dark ages of intoer
| apce and persecution. 1t commences follows
| "Whereas it has been represented to me, in Coun-
Gil, that several RoNAN CATHOLIC Priests are late.
" come from Maryland to Fairfax county in this
Colony, and are endesvoriUg, by crafty insinua-
tons, to seduce his Msjesty's good subjects from
their fidelity and loyalty to his Majesty, King
George, and his Royal House," and goes on to re-
quire tall Magistrates, Sherif1s, Constables and
Lieges to be dilgen. in apprehending and bringing
to justice, said Romish priests, or any of them"
THE STETHoscoPE AND VIRGINIA MEDICAL GA
for july has been laid table for notice
We take much pleasure in bearing testimony to the
merits of this excellent Southern Medical publication,
and sincerely hope that may be literally pstronized
by the profession Although the subjects of which it
treats somewhat ''out of line" never fail
to find the Stethoscope something of interest even
to general reader. The present number contains
valuable article from the pen of Joseph Lady, Phar
maceutis of this city, "On the Dispensing of Physic
and the relations of Pharmacy to the Practice OF
Medicine" The subjects of which it treats are OF
such vital Importance to all classes that should il
limits would permit extract the greater portion
of it. The first part of the article treats of the pre-
cautions to be used by chemists and physicians, to
avoid mistakes in prescriptions. Many fatal results
every year from the carelessness ignorance
insttention of Physicians and Druggists The writing
of prescriptions in sloveply hand or in a mongrel
language, half Latin half Eglish, is deprecated and
excellent rules laid down to certainty and safe
ty. The subject 10 highly important, for mans life
| may often depend upon the dottng of an / or the
crossing of q t
We make the following extracts to the adutera.
ton of drugs and fully agree with the writer that
some Legislative action on the subject is
demanded.
The country has been made to the import snce
of preventing the admission of foreign adulterated
drugs-and Congress, In passing law to exclude
theEl performed an act OF justice for the people that
the individual states may well initiate. To great
extent now relieved OF foreign frauds In medi
cines but have vet powerful enemy to oppose at
home. There are those in this country whose main
business it is to manufacture inferior medicines
MI. L. justly says, these people murder more peo'
pie than die by the hand OF the assassin. He con-
| tinues:
Itis only necessary to refer to a few OF the more
common sdulteratons practiced by these DRUG MANU-
| rAcTuREPs viz. Cantharides with euphoroum and
other powders cubebs with allsplce; peruvian bark
| with inferior varieties morpha with various SUD-
stances. inecac with various powders qulnlre with
| ssEnins snear gum, starch, &c. Scammony general
IL Contains from about to 10 per centum OF resin
H. ramander consists ofadultsratng mstters nitrate
IF civ frequently with nitrate of potassa; copaiba
tn xad oils turpentine &c; the essential oils with
| tur,entine alcohol, and many other articles. such
araa few Hundreds of other substances similarly
aared aud TO the pharmaceutical preparations
| almost innumerable frauds practiced in their
| manufacture by the class above described.
If the people of the United States conscious
of the extent to which they humbugged into the
use of deterioraed, weak and aduterated medicines
usually offered them at Unfortunately low prices, and
| which they buy on the superstition that they are
| CHEAP @ they would of their accord insist on
the protection of the state legislatures against such
outrageous frauds. If baker, in making bread were
to oneourth -four, and threefourths of powdered
sawdust, (which is but fair illustration of the adu
teTatlon OF drugs) were to introduce injurious
substance into it, his customers would man.
and insist on his punishment, and take measures to
prevent a recurrence of such criminal conduct. How
outrageous would the farmers consider it if fer guano
the merchant should sell them an article containing
only II per cent of the fsrtilizing salts of which
! guano Is composed. man is punished for selling
tainted meats; persons appointed to inspect fish
whisky -four, &c, &c; but the sale of medicines is
| wholly unrestricted-no legal enactments are i'm.
posed as to kind or quality; and II man COM
nsnd CUSTOM he may freely sell anything at all and
one has right to interfere long he violates