Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-08-26
oure Tor the yellow Fever.

cure for the Yellow Fever.
) + Nevitte Steele Esq, United States charge
l,Afaires at Venezuela communicated to the Depart
ment of State a few months ago the following e4,
tract from private letter to the British ice consul
at Ciudad Bolivar to the British acting Consul Cen
era at Caracas, giving some account OF Fecently
discovered remedy for the yellow fever:
: g An old woman named Mariquita Orhla mas ols-
covered perfect remedy for the black vomlt ana
yellow fever, by means of which seyera! persons
have been completely cured after consultation OF
doctors had declared that the quite hope
less and that the patients must die In few hours
The remedy is the juice of the pounded leaves OF the
verbena,' given in small doses three times day,
and injections of the same every two hours until the
bowels are empted. The 'verbena is wild shrub.
to be found growing almost everywhere. and partlc-
ulary in low moist ground. All our doctors have
adopted its use, and now few none die of those
late fearful diseases. There are two kinds OF it,
male and female the latter, of which enclose a
leaf and flower, is the one that is most used"
Mr.. Steele supposes that if the plant is not actu
alv indigenous to the United States it may be read
lily reproduced here under favorable circumstances.
IF so, its virtues medicine can, and we trust WILL
be speedily tested. The Union says that the Secre
tary of State has directed part of the seed for
warded by Mr.. Steele to be placed in the hands of
the Government horticulturist, and the remainder
to be forwarded to professional gentlemen connect
ed with the Medical University in New Orleans.
The Free Soil Appointments by Pierce & Fillmore.
The opponents of the administration greatly out
ragged at the repor that Mr.. Dix of New York, is to
be appointed Minister to France Remember, Mr..
Dix has not been vet appointed and, far as we
know, there is only Wing and Free Soil evidence that
he is to be. Yet Gen. Pierce is 10 be condemned. and
his administration repudiaed by the people, this
ground If the Wings could only get him out of office
and Scott or Fillmore-especially Fllmore-in, what
devoted pro slavery men we should find filling all The
&c hrno nn1o thnE Nn
pose we contrast of these AbolitIonists, whom
Fillmore did appoint, with Dix, whom Pierce hasn't
appointed. Mind. the worst that can be said of DIX
is. that like nnetynlne out OF every hundred northern
Wings he supported the WiImot Proviso: Let us
look little at Tom Corwin, the Immaculate, Fill
mores Secretary of the Treasury. We take our por-
trait of him from brother Wing and brother Adolf
ZIONIST, Cassius NJ Clay:
When Mr. Clay was the candidate for the Pres-
dency in 1914, Thomas Corwin and I spoke daily,
for long time, through Ohio, in company. That bat
tie was fought in the north at least upon antisavery
&c abolition principles the friends of slavery per-
petuation being avowedy in favor OF the annexation of
Texas, with view keeping up balance of power In
the Senate, by the acquisition of more slave States
and the friends OF Jefersonian RepubIicanism holding
that slavery was all eviI-toleratedbu to be extin-
gushed in due tme-North and South-standng for
H. Clay and against Texas annexation. | came from
slave State, embttered 10 my feelings against the
slave party by recent personal and political contest,
speeches
shareholders were so heartily denounced that my SEN
sbilities southern continually shsceptl-
BILE. am habitual reader of VIM l.. Garrlson's
Liberator, and Garrison surpassed him in heart
felt hatred of slavery and Shareholders. His now
saveholding friends will gather some idea of his aba
ted ire when they review his celebrated speech in the
Senate where he awarded and other volunteers in
Mexico his aspirations of &c bloody and hospitabe
graves" But what struck me most remarkable in
the " inimitabe Tom was his indulgence in IS whin-
ing, canting, and praying in his speeches ] have
been in the Juror of REVEALS and the wild enthusiasm
of the bivouacked camp.meetng, aud never did unc-
tous Methodist parson me to tears like the 6
imitable Tom ' And 10 such extremes did "TOm -
carry his scrptural quotations that he got TO be de-
cided bore and severely criticised his want of taste
and what was to me, rreverent the slave-chris-
tans would have me-almost basphemy ~
Can Wings, who appauded FiIlmores every act
read this sketch of one whom he took into his Cabi-
net, without feeling that they convict themselves OF
hypocrisy when they denounce Perce's appointees
Free Sellers ?-PennsylUan1an.
MURDER NEAR DAR1EN, GA-On Thursday last
while the brig Benecia Capt Jones, lying at Doboy
Island Georg ia, engaged in dscharging ballast
the cook, who is Canadian by BIRTH went into the
cabin and took loaded revolver, which he found w.
ing on the table, and after arming himself also with
bowie knife, went into the boat belonging 10 the BRIG
and cut her loose. The captain and mate, who were
on deck, the boat they supposed adrift-the
cook having laid himself down in the bottom of the
boat SO that he not by them. The mate
proposed to Jump overheard and secure the boat He
Jumped in the water, and after swimming to the boat
in the act of placing his hands on her, when the
cook raised himself up and placing the loaded psto
10 the mates head, shot him dead. The cook wa:
shortly afterwards arrested and taken to Daren where
he was examined on Friday and committed to Jail, Il
stand his trial upon the charge of murder.
We have not been able to ascertain the name of The
cook of the mate. We are informed that thu
| former is quite young man, probably not thar
| 10 or 20 years of age. A gentleman who came from
Daren, that the sailors of the brig Benecia
port that during her passage South the cook proposed
to them TO mutny and murder the captain and mate
and then to take the brig on voyage 10 California;
Savannah Meas 22d inst.
GLEAN1NGs FROM PUNcH.-Important to Manufac
turers,-The machinery of cotton mill in genera
the hands strike.
Well off for Soap.-ln consequence of the reduc
ton of the Soap Duties an eccentric gentleman, VIII
likes smooth shaven lawn, has the lawn in front o
| his house lathered in order to be shaved.
! LoueSuit and Observation-Disclosures of marriage i
like precious CHINA man has so much to pay 70
its breakage.
: Expensive Spirits.--The estimates of the charg
of the disembodied Militia heavier than on
would expect on the supposition that the Mlitis
disembodied, consists of the ghosts of Mlitiamen.
i The affairs of Turkey.-The Sultan may lead
life of oity," but his Minister for Foreign Affair
is RedSchid
Carving his Way to Iniquity.-A culinary wa
(not Soyer) has inserted in his Cookery Book tn
proclamation of the Emperor Nicholas, in which h
talks so largely about the g orthodox faith" an
g the sword' and has labelled it Directions fl
Cutting up a IurkeV"