Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-07-25
PHILADELPHIA CORRESPONDENCE.
PHILApELpHIA. July % I

s PHILADELpHIA, July %, 1854.
| Dear Journal Your paper is read by many
of our citizens, who inquire sswho is Sheboy-
| gan ?'s but the answer is Ssdont knows
If ever we felt the force of the poets ex-
! clamation
20 for n lodge in some vast wilderness,
| Some boundless cont guilty of shade''
it has been within the past week. The wealth
er has been excrutiatingly hot: the thermome-
ter having ranged from SO to 102 deg. at Nc
Alister's, Chestnut Street. On Thursday and
Friday, the heat was almost insupportable and
| sleep was utterly impossible at night. Sever
al persons were affected by .scoupes de sole1,''
| and in two or three cases, death ensued. Yet
| Notwithstanding, the general health of the CT
| ty has been good. This week the number of
| deaths was 453, being an increase over last
| week 40-among these "a were children and
infants, II from general debility and weak
| ness. The cholera cases were 50. Much
| of the sickness and mortality comes from ex-
eessiye eating and drinking, and it is wonder
| ful, when we reflect what quantities of indi-
| gestable and almost poisonous stuff are cram
| med into the human stomach during the sum-
mer months that more are not killed Our
u
| to remove all causes of public nuisances which
| are brought to their notice. The number OF
| cholera cases reported to them are few, and
in order that all cases shall be brought to their
notice, they have directed suits to be brought
against such physicians who shall not comply
with the provisions of Act of Assembly of 1918
called the Health Law. 1t is amusing. some
| times, to notice the fear and ignorance that
| pcrvades the lower classes, particularly our
| ''better citizens on this subject One in
| stance, viii suffice. A rough Irish woman
whose appearance and brogue indicated that
| she had not long sscome over" rushed up to
| the office, and cried sswhcre,s the doctbor
the docthor,-my girl is dying wild the chol-
eror. Och! she has sich palms." Upon the
return OF the medical attendent, it was found
that fine large Pathrick had made his debut
| IN the world whose appearance would Justify
the belief hat he might have causeds.a few,'of
the ''panes.'' In truth, such cases of alarm are
| frequent, when in fact no symptoms of cholera
| ever exist
Mayor CoNRAD's salary was fixed at $4,000
| per annum, rather a large sum- considering
that the salary of the late Mayor was but $4,000
and under the reg ime, he is but an Ex-
ecutive officer, and his duties, instead of being
| increased are not any more or greater than
| formerly. The principal part of the criminal
business is transferred to the Police Magis-
trate.
The ruins caused 10y the late fire. mentioned
| in my last, are being rapidly removed, to give
room for more and greater improvements
Rumof says that General WEIGH is about con-
tracing for the building of new Circus even
more commodious and magnificent than that
destroyed. What viii be done with the ruins
of the Chinese Museum, remains to be seen
MIR. Parker the owner not having determined.
| see that our friend ROBERT TYLER ESD. is
out in long letter to the '.Evening Argus OF
Monday last on the subject of ssKnow Nothing
ism" He is pretty fair writer, but evident
ly knows nothing about the subject under con-
sideration. He has been one of the leaders Of
the Irish wing Of the s:unterrifiei'' - and is ev-
idcntly looking forward to a position more
conspicuous than Prothonotary ofthe Supreme
Court. The unfortunate position of the sshand-
some Colonel of the lst District ,on the Nebras-
ka question, undoubtedly lays him on the
shelf; and Robert evidently aspires to his
place. But the fates are against him. and
those who live till March, 1855, will see DEL
egaton from Philadelphia, in the next Con-
gress, who are pledged to the extension Of the
Naturalization Laws, and to the doctrine that
none but those ssto the manor BORN shall hold
any office of trust, honor or profit in the gift of
the American people. ssOld Hunkers and old
Fogies'' may rail and sneer as much as they
please, but Belshazzcr-like, s'they see the
handwriting on the wall" and stand, .swith
fear and trembling" tho like school boys in
the dark, they may whistle to frighten away
the shadows.
.9dieH,