Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-04-03
dark with the cholic, and the messenger
had rode about fifteen miles for medical

lnlssu hau Lioue iue ABOUT ntteen miles for medlcal
aid. 3 a .,l
:. You must go. Dawk. yeul must. in
deed" he pleaded. Fhe old oman; is
powerful bad 4 heard her holler Two
hundred yards, alter ! Jeff. Make haste.
Dawk. that's a good fellow. or she viii
be dead before We get there. % t-
. oh, suppose it is one Of her old st;
tacks. replied the Doctor. !. Us. mighty
cold tonight. Wouldn't II do to- send
some medicine. and 60. ut TO morrow, ii
she does not get better ?''ss..:.-.--
Oh, no. Dawk: she is, bad now for
certain, They told me not TO spare The
Accordingly We went. Il was a cold.
TO suppose that Physicians are hard heart.
ed people. Their feelings have been op-
Grated upon BY so many scenes of an
guish. The vail Of The widow aud or
phau has fallen too often upon tbeir ears
for them to manifest poignant grief. bat
they are SO much accustomed TO acts of
charity that they do not need much
prompting from their feelings.
When we arrived At the Tl,ce we found
a sound log cabin about twelve fesi
square. with place. cleared around II
about 6fSl big enough for q good siksd hog
pen -
Upon entering the house We. found a
large log Ere which would have roasted
an OK whole, There were two beds: one
a little trundIe bed. before the ire. with
about ten children in il. dove tailed 10
sether so as TO. get the ben, it Of every
square inch OF surface. In he other bed
was The old woman, who was the grand
mother Of The children: the children be,
ing the offspring of two daughters who
lived with the old woman in state of
single blessedness.
= How do YOU do. Ms, Jinkins ?" en-
qnired the Doctor. :" Bad enough, doc
tor. bad enough. have a mons.us bel.
ly ache monstus. Howsomedever, |
feel better since puEed."
. " What have you been ealing. Mrs.
Jinkiuks 2" y,
. Oh. It's nothing that | have been
eating, doctor; | think il must be the be
ginning OF the Billiards lever. had the
Billiards down yonder and Hinkle doc,
tored me. Bless your soul haven't eat
anything hardly to-day. except, Betsy.
Ann, (talkiny to her daughter. who had
just come down ladder in her bare feet.
with; q nigh cap on those. two turnips
whfRsss you brought me. Oh, Lord oh,
Lord'r' ."
A little ipecac soon restored the old
woman TO health, BY relieving her OF the
und'gested vegetable.
The doctor now stretched himself upon
a blanket and slept till morning.
The next place worthy Of note in which
I found was the Mobile Debating Sacie
~. This is q body composed Of about
seven members, who discuss question Of
public Importance. The reader, h6Wev-
or. must not think that il is of no impor.
tsnce because it is small. President
Pierce's cabinet council aud the great
Ostend congress, are small. but look at
their vast achievements s.'" t.'s
Tie question for discussion on tile
nigut Of my visit was" Ii the United
States improving in morals? 2" - Ai'H
After some little difficulty 10 getting q
President. liz is said that no man was
ever known Co sit tt"ice-perhaps {" they do
no. desire TOO much homer. the afffma-
tive. proceeded to open the question.
Tney couteuded that improvement is a
general law OF human nature. subject on
iy to exceptions when Improvement il ar.
bitrarily kept back. This improvement
was manifested by comparing one aye
with another. IL had also been pr9phe>
cied by Holy Writ. We see il ini our re
ormed religion. our free press, eleenos-
Jnsry ins .itutioss. our free schools, &e.2n
II the world can improve withsthe pul4
pit trammeIlsd. with the press trsmmel-
led, WAS IL not fair to presume thatIn this
Country. where the powerful sgenSsof I'M
proVement Sete active. that We would
ind them producing their effects J We
had been told by the great philosopher
statesman Jefferson, " that error was not
TO be feared when Truth was left free 70
combat it5'' now where vas truIh,mor az
liberty 10 fight error than in the United
States. Q" ~ .dja5ar.p-L & -
10 addition to This a iErioi reasoning.
.it vas contended that then history lof1 abe
country indicated an Improvement.
Our treatment OF the lndisnsin former
times. was compared with, our. cfatherlS
care of them at the present day. Tory.
ism was also noticed. and compared with
the patriotism ofithe present time. z,s.T
?. lf Mr.. President. said some one oi
the afirmsliye, q you decide that morals
are NOT improving in the United Safes,
you decide That our republics anism dss 4
failure, You decide. sir. that we -nnsl
so back 10 Monarchy and Papaey!s You
decide, sir. that We must tear down this
government. tthesyork of our .forelashers.
the most glorious Wsrk Of human hands
that the world has ever seem 1@L5e {
The negative. on the contrary sHhilf
shey admitted the general improyemsnlo d
the human species in morals eeentsnded
that .,Ihe U1ited States. Yat the present
time. were, an, exception TO the genera