Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-04-20
LEGAL lntelIigence~City Affairs, &c

HsTHE HEX FEVER has been raging in and
about this city for some months past. 1t is, how
ever, we are happy in being enabled to say, at
this present writing, abating somewhat in vir-
ulence. Many patients, who have been bordering
on dellrium, are slowly regaining their wander
ing inteects; and others again who were SLIGHTLY
affected, have wholly recovered; those places.
therefore, which knew them before, happily
Know them ngain. The restoration, too, is, we
are happy to believe. permanent, in most cases
scarcely a trace remaining OF the late lnaady.-
Whist we should not feel safe ia recommending
any of our friends who only couvaIesceut. to
wantonly incur the hazard of encounterinp a
brood of young unfedged Shanghaes, we vet have
no hesitation in giving it as our opinion that
those gifted with strong nerves. who feel that thew
have fully recovered may venture to take a peep
at hen house, provided it be empty!
The Hen Fever is singular malady Like
the small pox, or the cholera, or the measles, it
affects all classes. There is, however, one
strange feature about this strange fever, which
renders it wholly dissimiIar from the maladies
enumerated. 1t Is this: Those unfortunate per-
Sous who have the weakest heads aud heaviest
purses, generally suffer the most violent parox-
ysms. Nor is this feature confined exclusively to
this latitude, as we perceive by a late English
paper that the unprecedented sum of $500 was
lately paid near London for celebrated Cochin
China fowl We have said that tine fever affects
all classes: in truth of this, witness how strong
minded editor bewails the death of his Shauehae
Rooster:
Ill
of other ROSTERS, was like the trombone in an
orchestra of volins, or the bass of rumbling
thunder amid the hum of dozen spinning
wheels:
Farewell, faithful servant lasting farewell;
\, From thy tate let all ROSTERS take warming.
No more will thy voice. in a long and loud swell,
Awake US, to get up and go to work, about half past
five O'Clock in the morning.
This poor fellows intellect has evidently be-
come unsettled. Witness the last line in the
stanzas Is there no physician in the land who
can minister to a mind diseased - What says
Dr.. Stribbing?
DoNNErTI's TROUPE AT THE THEArRE.-
Whether ami mails possess intellectual powers has
at times been question gravely discussed. The
innumerabe anecdotes of the sagacity displayed
by dogs. elephants. and even lower grades of ami
mails have awakened the curious Investigation of
the learned, but it has been reserved for Donnet.
ii. to train animals that they seem TO
understand human language and to act like ra-
tional beings.
Since the first appearance of this groGn of
brute actors the stage in this country, their
performances have drawn the most fashionable
and crowded houses. And we'll they may. The
Monkeys perform their part with precision and
apparent intelligence which is truly astonishing.
Grouped around table, as apparent guests to
feast. each personates OF ginal character, and
acts through the entire scene not simply in
keeping with his part but % as to present perr
feet imitation ofintellgent beings. The dancing
on the tight rope is of the beautiful repre-
sensations of the stage, and is at the same time so
full of humour as to bring down the house iu
roars of laughter.
The acting of the part of deserter, by dog,
the entrance of its comrade grave-dgger.
with light and spade. and the removal of the
body, is most extraordinary exhibition of train
ing.
We cannot, for want of space, go into full
detail ofthe remarkable intelligence exhibited by
the goat Esmeralda, and the dogs. which are not
the least attractive of the performers. and we
would suggest to our readers, thata visit to the
Thaetre will afford them the highest gratifca-
ton.
The rotary wonder and the Kaleidoscope lllu-
sons are also worthy of visit.-La. Spectator.
COLLECTOR OF THE PoRT OF RICHMOND
john Lynch, Esq. yesterday received official in
telligence of his appointment to the post of Col
lector of the Port of Richmond. He will enter ut
once, we learn, upon the discharge of the duties
of the office