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Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-10-25
NUMBER 22s
From the Richmond EsqHirer.
no MY SISTER EMILY.

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Rev. DR.. Clarke on voluntary oa,h..

Let all Know.No,hines, (says the Missis-
sippian,) and particularly those protesting
religion, ponder the following extracts from
the Gospel Of Jesus; and we especial, in
vits the attention of Me,hodisis 10 Rev. DR..
Clatke's comments thereon. Turn TO the first
Epistle Of James, 5ih chapter, and i2lt verse,
and read But above oil things my breth-
red, s,Dsar not neither by heaven, neither by
the earth, neither by any oath, lest ye fall In.
10 condemnation" So likewise in Matthew,
s:h chapter, and oath verse; T" But say up-
10 you, svear NOT at al, neither by heaven,
for j, is Gods h,one, nor by The earth, for IT
q bis foo,ssooI, nor BY Jerusalem, for Y is the
city Of the great Kag'"
Rev. Dr. Clarke, in his cCmmen'ary on
these passages, says; "He that uses any oan'
except that which he is solemnly caile2 oy
the mssislrate 10 make, 80 far from beng q
Christian, does not deserve the reputation OF
dscency or common sense"
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MEDICAL SUMMARY,

Students, and all concerned, will please
remember that the Lectures in the Eclectic
Medical College IF Pennsylvania, commence
on wednesday, the nth of this month, ,----
The Medical Chronicle,n of Montfeal
states that there is a young girl about II or
1S years old, belonging to a very respectable
family of that place, who has for about three
months taken no food whatever II is es.
timated that there are between fifteen hun
dred and two thousand homeopathic physi.
clans in the United States---At Adrian,
Michigan, tape-worm, Ninety feet IN length.
has been taken from the intestines Of wo-
man. Paul Dubois, the eminent Partisan
accoucheur, has adopted child that he re.
Gently brought into the world by the Cesa-
rian operation. n.--There is woman in N.
Y. s23 years old who is the mother of four
children, the oldest of whom is ~ years
the age of the mother at its birth!----T There
has been new Hospital established in the
city of New York called the /" Jews Hospi-
tall" having been planned and erected by
the munifcence and voluntary contributions
of members of the Hebrew faith.--&--The
wife of Foster Evoy, of fNewfeld, NY, gave
birth to four living childreu-three girls and
one boy--weighing five pounds and three
ounces each, on the 22nd of July%--The
Cholera has made It's appearance in various
parts of the West.-Dr. David Calkins--a
brother of our contributor of Chol-
! era at St. Louis, on the morning of the 22nd
of July Abbott Lawrence, the Boston
millionaire, is dead.--The Yellow Fever
is raging iearfully at Norfolk and Portsmouth,
Va.-Dr. Armand, the physician TO Napo-
leon, on the Island of st. Helena, died re-
| Gently in England THE internal use of
chlorotorm, in small doses, is considered
specific in hiccough. h.--Yaccinatio was
performed upon 1862 men in the Russian
army during the year 1853; and. Of the whole
re-vaccination, 28, 1929 had the regular vac
cine eruption, 5,933 had an irregular erup-
ton, and 1864 had none at all; in the same
yc1lr LOG cases Of varioloid, 25 cases of
chicken pox, and of small pox occurred
in the army DIR. p. Smith, of Leeds, states
that out OF SO cases of frost-bite that came
under his notice, in the Crimea, only three
escaped death; AZ sunk or died in the most
miserable agony. While in the French
army 300 recovered out of S03 cases.----
The great naturalist, M. F.ourens ofFrance,
says that the rule for all animals respecting
the period of their existence, is five times
| the period they require TO mature from birth.
The next course of Lectures in the Penn.
Medical University of Philadelphia, begin
on the 10th day of this month.--Medieal Re-
former
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LUMBIA COUNTY, PA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER Is, 1855.

advocate and defend. In the allopathic sys.
tenn of practice there are doubtless many
errors. And so there may be in the various
systems of reformed practice, All need i'm
provements-and modification. The new
systems since my recollection have under
gole important notifications and changes,
in the hands of their friends, and "yet there
is room" The science of medicine like all
others is progressive. And honest untram-
elled investigation should be our motto, and
the mitigation Of human suffering and the
cure Of disease our aim. He is the bestphy-
sician who is the most successful in treat
ment of disease. Patients think more of the
efficacy Of our treatment, than of the orthodoxy
of our medical creed. ~ .,..ss
By the foregoing remarks would now be
understood as being in the least opposed to
an union ofallreformeys of medical practice,
in an organization for the mutual improve
ment and benefit of all, and for the advance
ment of medical science. 1t would seem
however that the first step to such an union,
will be TO agree upon some 'platform" I"
upon which all can unite. The principles
embraced in it would indicate the name
We should defer naming the child until it is
born. 1t viii be in good season to name it
then. In the mean time ii is necessary that
we should cultivate kindly feelings towards
each other. No good cause is advanced by
unkindness or abuse. If we would have
,afrends we must show ourselves friendly
If we would be respected, we must respect
others If we have more true light than
| others, we should be thankful for it and let it
| shine. We need not boast, for the intelli-
gent public will appreciate our skill and
publish our success, if we merit their ap.
| proval.
am glad that proposition for uc union
| to be effected, between the National Eclec-
tic Medical Association and the Middle
| States Reformed Medical Society, has
been made, platform suggested, and a
committee appointed TO carry the proposition
into effect. Medical retormers have only to
concentrate their influence and unite their
efforts, and the glorious work will go speed
| lily onward. r.F
! Portland, August 2s,l, 1885
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-10-18
The Sick Man's Bed.

II there be a regal solitude, il is bed.
How the patient lords |, there; what caprices
he acts without control! How king.like he
sways his pilow--iumbling and tossing, and
shifting. and monlding tito the ever-varyng
irequ,silion of his throbbing temple. He
changes sides otlener than politician. Now
he lies full length ,ihen half length, oblique-
ly, transverseIy, head and fee, quite across
the bed: and none accuses him of tergiver.
sation. Within the four curtains he is abso-
Lutte. They are his Mare Causum. How
sickness enlarges the dimensions Of mans
self to h;useli He is his own exclusive
object Supreme selfshness is incolca'ed
on him as his only duty. IT'S the two Ia
bles Of he Law to- him. He has nothing TO
think Of but how 10 ge, well, What passes
ou, of doors or within them, SO he hear not
the jarriug Of them affects him NOT.
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A Fashionable Belle a, saratoga.

Saratoga is a magnet, drawing with magic
force, thousands from every part. Some
come here to contemplate, to reverie, and 10
write; others 10 grasp chance in the lottery
Of life; while others are here to admire and
10 be admired. Time is wasted in dissipa-
ton, and the study is how to dispose of it,
Letus see how a fashionable belle passes
the day. 5}
She generally rises about Q o'clock, A. M. :,
takes half hour TO array herself in her
morning robes and arrange her eoi6eur, then
she perhaps goes TO the Springs, and drinks
mineral water, ,umbler after tumbler, till it
Is impossible to swallow more-i,s her am
biiion TO have drank more than her neigh
Dor; then she retarnsao bseaksas,, and sa,is-
fies her delicate appetite by eating half
broiled chicken. small beefsieak, an ONE
let, some milk toast, roll and coffee; and then
che is ready 10 make conquest OF the first
mechanical body that wears vest, Then
che rolls ten-pns for an hour, in order 10
give herself color then returns homeIo dress
for dinner; two hours are generally taken for
| this; at the sound OF the bell or the gong,
she sails in all her dry goods into the dining
hall. The greater the expense of dress, the
greater the style, the farther il drags behind,
the m ore you must admire her taste. When
she is seated she casts her eyes up and down
the table TO see the effect she has procuced,
then calmly prepares 10 do justice 10 the ma:
terials before her. Fashionable bellies are
always fine epicures they can instantly de-
tect the difference between tame or a, wild
duck. One hour and half is spent III din
ner, and then for promenade and arrange
ment iEto couples. Then is the time when
all will pass under observation; every false
!, diamond will be detected no bachelor but
Will be discovered, ifhe have wig or not;
a u,u..ed face VIII be scanned till the natural
color will outvie The artificial an unnatural
tooth. a gisss eye, wooden leg, blind peo-
ple. rheumatic people, deaf people, lame
people, padded peo.n .nle. Ten-penny calicoes
cannot pass muster as silks, and imitation
lace must be nut down. You must run The
gauntlet, aud every flaw will gain and spread
itself, and become large in your own eyes
If you have been discovered sitting N cor
ner with companion, especially iiyou nave
been whispering low, you will be surely
pointed at. The belles-Saratoga bellies rule
here, and you must submit to custom with.
out complaint. The belle now eats her tea,
and then she enters the ball room, and be-
tween flrllation and dancing, she passes
through the day and evening. This is the
routine of life, admirably adapted 10 dyspep-
tic CONSTITUTIONS ofhe Missouri Repub,
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Coon ,ApvIcE.-Never throw stone at any
one pnil yon have looked 10 see whether
there is window behind, or you may have
10 pay rather dear for your revenge. ~
Never FIX your own price, but leave il en-
tlrely to the liberaliiy Of the gentleman as The
chancss are you will &c. . great deal more
BY Il.
Never Sit next TO young lady al dinner
for she only 1alks and does moi care about eai-
ipg.s &, =
Never quarrel with your wife, (if you have
60. sny,) as You will only have 10 make up
and pay for the reconoiliaticn in The shape
Of q season ticket at The opera, trip TO the
springs, . silk dress OF cashmere shawl.
Never mention you have received lega-
sy, OF some mpeninent fellow will be ask
inc you 10 stand dicnefe
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The yellow Fever In virginia.

We are extremely grieved to learn the
great extent to which our brethern of Nor
folk and Portsmouth have suffered from the
extreme virulence ofthat great curse of our
southern cities, Yellow Fever. While we
deeply regret the cause that has given rise
to it, we cannot refrain from noticirg some
of the ever 10 be commcndabe philanthro-
pic actions that have boen melted by the
suffering of our southern brethren as well as
to censure the selfish ignorance and barbar-
ity that has been exhibited toward them by
the inhabitants of the towns and villages in
their immediate vicinity. The noble gener-
osity with which many distant csmmunities
and especially those of our opulent cities
have responded TO the calls of distress from
the afflicted cities,is worthy of the highest
co conendation. While, gold has flown freely
from thsir Golfers, food from their well fur
nished marts, ,nedicne from their stores,
and all kinds of ';maternal aid" from their
hands, as well as sympathy from their bo-
SONS, all in the most generous abundance;
and while members of the medical pro-
fession and experienced nurses from The
hospitals have not faltered yolunieerthcir
aid, with their lives, and In some instances
fully offered them up without hope OF fee or
reward, except that which results from the
Consciousness of doing good to their fellow
men, others, and that too OF the immediate
neighbors of the afflicted have refused ref
uge and an asylum to those who fled, help-
less and forlorn, 10 them for succor and as
sisiance. Such communities should receive
the well deserved censdre of fallmankind-
In contrast with such barbarous meanness
how noble is the generous ctand language
of the Hon. Henry A. Wise inviting the ter
ror stricken inhabitants of the doomed cities,
TO come and share the hospitaliiies of the
generous citizens of sold .Amaeco P' c1
In extenuation it may be plead that ''self
preservation, the firstlaw of nature'' justified
such barbarity; but there is not wanting a..
bundant evidence TO prove, that the disease
with which our friends of Norfolk and Ports
mouth have been visited is positively moi
contagious, and all intelligent men ought to
be aware of this fact, and so ought, at least,
the medical men of the towns in which such
barbarous actions occurred, and their adj
vice would doubtless have proved sufficient
to have prevented it.
When this form of disease is SO well
known to be non-contagious, why also will
the authorities Of our cities continue TO es-
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Selfish ness Uuchristian.


Live for some purpose in the world. Fhl
up lie measures of duty TO others. Conduct
yourself so that you shall be missed with sor-
row when you are gone. Mullitudes Of our
species are living in such a selfish manner
that they are not likely toIbe remembered az
Ter their disappearance. They leave behind
them scarcely any traces Of their existence,
but are forgotten as though had never been.
They are, while they live, like one pebble
unobseryed among million on the shore,
and when they die they are iustlike the same
pebble thrown into the sea, which just ruf-
fes the surface, sink, and is forgotten With
ou, being missed from the beach. They
are neither regretted BY the rich, wan
ted by the poor, nor celebrated by the
learned Who has been better for their
llfea Whose miseres have they healed p
Whose wants suppIieds Who would unbar
the gate Of life TO re-admit them to existence,
or what face would greet them, back 10 onf
world with smile? Wreiched, unproduc.
tive mode of existence! Selfshness is its
own curse; il is starving vice. The man who
does no good, gels none. He is like The heath
in the desert, neither yielding fruit nor seeing
when good comelh stunied, dwarfish, mis-
ersble shrub.
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Editorial Life In California.

A San Francisco paper gives Us the follow
ing. in reply 10 correspondent, who assured
his readers that editors in California were
rather peacca5ly inclined '9'
"In order that we may mole fully demon
slfate the manner in which a California edi-
tor passes his time, and the pleasing Incl
dents that daily occur to him, we will sketch
brief outline OF his duties and tie Style in
which he executes them every tweuty-four
hours. First-gets up in the morning at len
O'Clock dresses himself, puts on his hat, in
which are six or seven bullet holes, and goes
10 restaurant for breakfast. Alter breakfast,
starts for the office to look over the papers,
and discovers that he is called scoundrel in
one of them, liar in another, and puppy
in another; he smiles a. the pleasing pros.
pect of having something 10 do; fills out and
dispatches three blank challenges, ream or
two OF which he always keeps on hand, ready
printed, 10 save time commences wiring a
leader, when as the clock strikes eleven, a
large man with cow-hide in one hand, a
pistol in the other, and bowie-kuife in his
belt, walks in and asks him il his name is
---; he answers by knocking The intruder
down two pair of stairs with chair. Al
twelve O'Clock, finds that his challenges have
been accepted, and suddenly remembers
that he has little affair of that nature to set
lie at the beach that day al three O'Clock /;
goes out, kills bis man, then comes in and
dimes on stewed grizzly. Starts for the Of
flee, and while going there gets mixed up in
street row, and has The heel of his boot
shot off by accident laughs to think how
beautiful il was done arrives al his sane
turn, and finds an 'infernal machine upon
the table; knows what il is, and merely
pitcss II out of the window; writes an article
ON moral reform ! and then starts for The
theatre /; is attacked on the corner of dark
alley bv three men, kills Two OF them, and
TAX IS .ne other to fhe station house Re-
turning TO The Office a aIeleven o'clock at night,
knocks man down who attempts TO rob
him, kills dog with a piece Of paving stone,
gels run overly cab, and has the tail OF
his coat slittet with thrust from n knife,
and two bullst.holes put through bis beaver
as he steps within his own door; smiles al
his escape writes until Two O'Clock, and then
turns I'M with the happy consciousness Of
having two duels 10 fight the next day. No
wonder that California editors are objects of
jealousy Hereafter eur eastern co.empofa-
'fies will please do usihe justice of believing
no correspondent who may intimate any
thing at variance with conclusions which
may be drawn from the above picture"
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w"Paddy, my jewel, why don't you gel
your ears cropped They are entirely loo
long for a man." "And yours too short foI
an ass y, replied Pat. ,s
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PRips.--A proud man is fool in fermen-
tation, swelling and boiling like poridge
pot. He sets his feathers like an owl, to
swell and seem bigger than he is. He Is
troubled with an inflammation Of self-conceii,
that renders him the man Of pasleboard, and
altrue buckram knight He has given him.
self sympathetic love.powders, that works
upon him to doiage and transforms himself
into his own mis,rss, making most passionate
court to bis own dear perfections, and wor-
shipping his own image. All his upper stores
are crarnmed with masses Of spopgy SUBJ
stances, occupying much space as feathers
and cotton will stuff cushions better than
things Of more compaci and solid proper,
tion. si s4ss,g < II, a Z ~ !. ,s,ss.s.iss * y
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0lEWT0lN lpWMTBYo
"BoKHoBooLA.GnA.u

a stranger preached last Sunday,
And crowds of people came,
To hear two hour sermon
With barbarous sounding name
Twas all about some beathens
Thousands of miles afar,
Who lived in Iaud Of darkness
Called I" BouobooIa-Gha."
80 well their warts he pictured,
That when the plates were passed,
Each lisl'ner felt hispockets,
And goodly sums were cast;
For all must lend shoulder,
To push the rolling car,
That carried light and comfort
To Borroboola-Gha."
That nigh, their wants and sorrows
Lay heavy on my soul
And deep in mediation
took my morning stroll;
Pill something caught my mantle
With eager grasp and wild,
And looking down with wonder,
saw little child.
- paiC auI pun Sioo'oicf
Ia rags and dirt forlorn
What could she want, questioned,
Impatient 10 be gone;
With trem mbing voice she answered,
"We live just down the street,
And NANNY she's dyin'
And we've nothing left TO eat"
Down in q wretched basement.
With mould upon the walls,
Thrn' whose hali-buried windows
Gods sunshine never falls;
Where cold, and want, and hunger,
Crouched near her as she lay,
found fellow creature 81.
Gasping her life away.
A chair, broken table,
A bed Of dirty straw,
A hearth all dark and cheerless-
But these scarcely saw;
For the mouFnfu sight before me,
The sad and sick'ning show
Oh had ever pictured
A scene go full OF woe!
The famished and the naked,
The babes that pine for bread,
Tho squalid group that huddied
Around the dying bed:
All this distress aud sorrow
Should be in lands afar;
Was | suddenly transported
To g Borroboola- Cha
All, no! the poor and wretched
Were close behind the door.
And had passed them heetlsss
A thousand times before.
Alas! 70. cold and hunger
That met me every day,
While all my tears were given
To the suffering fat away.
There's work enough for Christians
In distant land, we know;
Our Lord commands his servants
Through all the world to SO.
Not oniy for the heather;
This was his charge 10 Them
/" Go preach The word, beginning
First al Jerusalem"
Oh 4! Christian, God has promised
Whoe'er TO thee has given
A cup of pure cold water,
Shall find reward 10 heaven.
Would you secure the blessing,
You need not seek il far;
Go find in yonder hovel
A " Boroboola-Gha."
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T II 10 about as hopeless task to get q
rich woman to live life Of common sense,
as,it il to get rich man in.o The kingdom Of
Heaven: 49,
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The strongest Kind Of a hiat-A young lady
asking gentleman 10 see if one OF hef rings
viii 60 on bis little finger. q
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EyAlways earn before you spend, snt
keep balance in your purse.
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- The effect of mental disquietude in
producing dyspepsia, is far greater than is
supposed, II is we'll known that persons in
good health, of sound digestive organs, who =
take plenty of exercise, and are free from
anxiety, may eat almost anything, and ia
quantities which would kill those ia differ.
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g Innocence is flower which wiihers
when touched, but blooms not again though
watered with tears.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-17
AID. HOWARD IN THE THIRD TIER.

A singular performance came off last night in the
third tier saloon of the Broadway Theater in which
Harry Howard, Alderman of the Sixth Ward, PO-
lice Captain bowling, and one William Potter, an
emplo,e in the L. S Public Stores, were the princ-
pol actors. The occurrences, as witnessed by the
bys,arders, were substantially ss follows:
few minutes before the curtain fell, at the close
Of the last piece Howard and Bowling went into the
rum saloon Of the third tier and Ho Sard, apparently
without the least provocatOn from Potter, told him
Potter TO clear out of there and 60 into the Four
teenth Wud where he belonged, aud Immediately
struck him. Potter, upon being struck, remarked;
What do you strike me for p whereupon Howard
again pitched q, him, Bowling making an apparent
effort 10 hinder him, and selling Potter by the hair,
held him with lis head down. Howard, meantime,
kicked Potter four i've times about the hsad.
Wien Potter was let up lie remarked 70
Howard You're pretty Alderman :" Howard
sgain made for hin, when Bowling instead OF hold
ing Howard, seized Potter again By the hair, and
while he wasbeding sim. with biz head down, Howard
improved the opportunity by administering five or
six more kicks most Of which took effect in POtters
face. Capt D0wlin: then led Potter by the hair,
saying, Come out You tn ef I'm going to show you
up. aud start. i Of with him Potter a. hOer-
~ hsN al hour aferward, when he stated that they
pu, him into cell, but soon ater discharged him,
after making him promise that he would take no pro-
ceedinss against them. The difficulty was said TO De
OF private nature, Of two or three yesrs' Standing
and has been aggravated, probably, by the " Hard
and Soft schism in the Democracy.
We prtsume that Mayor Wood will look into this
matter. 1t may be that both Alderman Howard AMI
CAPTAIN Dowling are innocent OF any improper con-
duet whatever but the affair looked to the bye
ISLANDERS as though in their zeal 70 preserve the peace
the Alderman, at least, had worked a little harder
than the csse required II the prisoner was thlef
what magistrate discharged him from arrest II De
We, not thief why wss he arrested The case ought
TO be thoroughly investigated so that the eredi' an
glory due to the amiable and gentlemany Alderman
Howard, and the vielant Captain Downing may De
duly awarded to them. We shall expect to ZEE hfAy
sifted and impartially sdiudics'ed.