The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-05-28

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! SOMETHING LIKE PRoPHEcY.--In looking
over some of the earlier "debates in congress"
friend has stumbled over the following pas
sage, which certainly seems as IT the eloquent
speaker had the eye of his mind fixed upon the
embryo city of Salt lake, in the territory OF
Utah. 1t occurred in a speech delivered by
Mr.. Harrison Gray Otis in the senate, in 1890.
on the Missouri bill:
"Mr Otis said he would suppose another case.
not likely to happen, but yet as he trusted, not
outrageously improbable. There were, as was
we'll known in many parts of this country, soci-
cites of persons called shakers" of good moral
characters and exemplary habits, of industry.
whose fundamental doctrines were founded on
the duty of celibacy. They are also rich peo-
pie, and in some Of the States experience inter-
ruptions in their endeavors to augment their
/ numbers, and inconveniences from laws which
press upon their consciences, especiallyin mill
tary concerns. Imagine, sir, {said he J all these
sects combined, and determined to make a pill
grimage and become sojourners in this new
country of promise. Figure to yourself four or
FIVE adults of both sexes, with their children IN
separate and dismal procession, marching be-
yond the Mississippi until they should find
spot suited to their occasions; then hating and
sending you missionary with the intelligence
of their demand to be admitted as State. Are
you bound to admit them without stipulation
that they viii make no laws prohibiting mar
riage, at the moment you know this to be the
main design Of their emigration, and thus secure
to sect of those peculiar and anti social tenets
monopoly of the entire State, and power of
virtually excluding from its jurisdiction the great
mass of your citizens? There is no end to the
instances which might be multiplied wherein
your interference would be Indispensable for the
protection of your citizens and the prevention
4 of contagious customs and institutions adverse
to the policy and nature of our government"
+ WESTERN IMM1eRAr1oN-Th The rush westward
is without precedent in the history of the coun-
try. For the past three weeks the arrivals over
each of the Michigan roadside central and
southern-have been not less than fifteen hun
dred, and often they have averaged about two
thousand daily! OF these it is estimated that
fully two thirds are emigrants seeking homes in
the west, and Of the two-thirds nine -tenths are
Americans by birth, mostly from New York
and New England. Only few days since.
and we mention the fact to show The character
and extent Of the movement, one hundred and
forty persons from one neighborhood in Maine,
passed through in company on their way to
! Iowa. This was but the avante guard OF more
to come. ,.-.
According to the best estimates we have
been able to make, this west-that is to say, the
i State of Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, and the
territories of Minnesota and Kansas-are re-
ceiying now about 1000 new inhabitants every
day over the great eastern roads alone. This
estimate does not include the emigration from
Indiana and Onto, by the roads traversing the
State laterally, nor the emigration arriving by
! the Ohio and Mississippi rivers from Virginia.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
which by the way, is larger than ever before.
i We are safe in saying that the increase from
all quarters is not less than four thousand souls
a day, and the tide is not yet at its height
This year the movement has commenced
) earlier than usual, by about three weeks. The
; better information difused throughout the east
in relation to the necessity of getting here ear
~ in the season to be able to put in crop of
young corn, a few potatoes and the necessary
garden truck, as the kentuckians have it, has
hurried it forward; yet it will be June before
the daily arrivals will be the most numerous
Even now the great roads leading into the city
over which armies come, and the great roads
leading west-the Galena and Chicago, the
Rock island the Galena Air line, and the Chi
cago and Burlington-are taxed almost up TO
the capacity of their rolling stock; wha. they
will do when the demands of travel are quite
doubled and they are forced daily to accom-
modate six or seven thousand hurried and i'm.
patient people, we do not undertake to say.
49, [Chicago Tribune,
CURE FOR HYDRopHoBzA.--Any remedy for
this terrible disease should be hailed as bless
ing. The Elizabethtown IN. j. Post comes to
US marked by the editor to direct our attention
to the following remarks and receipt for curing
this scoarge: .@
Some three years ago we published in the
Post remedy for that terrible disease, bat it
seems credence was not given to our statement.
for it was never copied, to our knowledge. Yet
there are still living many evidences Of its eff
cacy. 1t was first prescribed on consultation
of three physicians for an individual who had
been bitten and badly torn by dog known to
be mad, and we believe after the individual
had one or two Of the spasms of hydrophobia.
The patient was cured, and lived many years.
Of the three physicians one still Survives, man
nearly 85 years of age, and 'he has had ocea~
sion to prescribe the same remedy, during
long term of fifty years practice, for other per.
sons bitten by rabid animals, and always with
success. The last time was within our memo.
ry, between the years 1920 and 1894, we be-
leve, when several children in the south par.
of Chesterfield, or north part of W;llisborough.
in this county, were bitten by cat. Animals
were bitten by the same cat, and went mad and
died. We know not if any of the individuals
bitten are still living in that neighborhood, but
there are, undoubtedly others who remember
the circumstances. A remedy so well known
to have proved cure, should be known to the
medical profession and to the world and we
once more publish it, hoping that many others
may 'mbibe portion Of the faith we ourselves
have in i, and again prove its efficacy should
an occasion offer:
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