Kansas weekly herald., 1855-09-01
For the Kansas Herald.
ReDIE tOJ. s.. II.

Reply TO y. S. II.
A writer IN your last paper, over the sig
nature of j. S. B., alluding to an article
in previous number of the Herald, says
" unfounded rumors relative to the Sur
geon of the Post at Fort Riley, have found
their way into your paper;'' and further on
speaks of the pain that is felt g by the
spread of rumors SO injurious and utterly
untrue in reference to Doctor Simons."
As furnished you with the data of that
article, I feel called on to notice the COM
munication of ]. S. B. Upon referring to
that article, said to contain rumors g so ut
terly untrue I am surprised at the delica-
cy in which the Doctors conduct is spoken
of, and am still more surprised that he, or
his friends, should voluntarily challenge
newspaper controversy in reference to it.
The only allusion therein made to Doctor
Simons is that, ' the Physician left the
place, and the Post was without COM
missioned officer of the army Is this
untrue! On the contrary, ]. S. B. admits
the statements; but excuses the Doctor on
account of his sickness! Does it not ap-
pear little singular to those familiar
with the prostrating influences of the
the Cholera, that Doctor could be too
sick to attend to his duties at the Post, and
yet, at the same time, be weH enough to
ride from twenty to fifty miles aaoay from
at! And will not hasty fight, and car
riage riding, be considered somewhat
novel mode of testing patient " entirely
prostrrtsd 6y cholera 70
But, as the Doctors conduct is to be the
subject of investigation by the Military
authority, resist the opportunity, which
]. S. B. SO temptingly offers me, of re-
viewing it now, aid will only say, that
all that was published in that article was
virtually and substantially true, and the
evidence to sustain it will be forthcoming
at the proper time. b. 5. j.
A BARGAIs ArTEMPTED.-The New
York papers-the Tribune, Herald, and
Evening Post-alle ge that the President
tried unsuccessfully, through the medium
of confidential friend, to induce Gov:
Reeder to resign, In order to save him the
unpleasant consequences which he feared
from removing that functionary. They all
agree that the Chinese mission was ten
dered Reeder, and declined. And the
Tribune says that thereupon the English
embassy was offered but Gov r. exacted
some collateral conditions which the Presi-
deGt could not assent to, and the negotia-
tions was accordingly broken off. Reeder's
removal followed In due time.
These are grave charges, and we should
not reproduce them here were they not
stated SO antially as to induce a be-
lief In their correctness. At all events
they will speedily be, substantiated or dis
proved as they are of too serious import
to be treated as mere flying rumors.
/. -SwoRS -Shuman, of the Syracuse
Journal has foresworn the use oftobaeco
henceforth and forever. He says: We
had smoked until our nervous system was
like fidle unslrung-until we had become
as weak as a child, as miserable as con-
slant headache and heart ache could make
us, and as wild branded as drunken poet.
We were smoking our nervous system into
fgets; our coTporeal frame was being re-
duced to skin and bones; and our mental
machinery was becoming disordered and
unmanageable. The habit cost us not a lit
tie suffering, and about two dollars week
In hard cash. We swore off, and stopped
it-haye not smoked a Whit since-feei
better, and are growing fat and strong.
We pronounce the use of tobacco a great
vice, and advise all our friends-y young,
old and middle aged-to stop the use there
of, at once and forever.