Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-27


on examination, we find to contain many choice
articles; prominent among which we may men
ton, memoirs of the Court of England during
the regency, 1811-182O," ''Report of the trial
of Madeline Smith at Edlnburg, June l, 1857"
Crhis our readers will recolIcct as the case in
which Miss Smith was arrested, tried and ac-
quilted for the alleged poisoning of L'Angier,
her lover, and which became the excitement of
the civilized world at the time, both on account
of the facts developed and the singular and de-
bateablc verdict of mot proven" which was
rendered)
We have also in this number curious paper,
called Contributions to the Philosophy of Wis
ion, and what seems to be a very readable one,
entitled, "The Earls ofKildaro and their Ances-
tors" The article under the head of "Studes
of Homer and the Homeric Age" will delight
all lovers of the classics.
The other articles ofthis number we have not
had time to look into.
Messrs. Phillips, Sampson & Co., publishers
of Boston, have issued little book called a
"Brief Expostor of Rational Medicine" from
which we Gull this extract
Medicine, in its place, was good thing, but
proved bad thing when we got too much of it.
He had himself had the misfortune to be seve-
raj times sick, and during the continuance of
his disease, felt much more gratltied on those
days in which it announced that he was to
take no medicine, than when tartar emetic was
replaced by caomel, and the calomel by colohi-
cum, acOnte, and last new remedy. patients
and their friends were ignorant and unrcaSOn-
able, it might sometimes be necessary to deal
with fool according to his folly; but he believ-
ed that sensible men and women were gratified
by being regarded and treated as reasonable be-
lngs 1t was mistake in medical men to sup
pose that their influence mr. Sooiol Ponition could
be improved by tho mystery which they ObServ-
ed and the activity with which they haraSSed
their patients In Great Britain, an island where
the people subsit largely on blue pills and black
draughtS, the doctors never known to at
tain the high aristocratic rank which was occa-
SlOnally accorded to successful bankers, iurists
and generals. On the contrary, the country
was overlooked with starved apothecarieS and
physicians advertising for situations as travel
ing servants. He thought one of the greatest
misOpplicatiOn of human industry was in the
production of superaous drugs and drug dispen-
sers. He did not believe in the transmutaton
of metals, but was great believer in their
transportation. In the form of calomel, the city
of New Orleans alone had swallowed up some
hundred tons of the quicksilver of Spain and
South America Palaces were being built in
various cities alike from poisonous arsenic and
harmless sarsapaTa. A century hence the
mines of gold will be sought for, not in Califor-
uia, but in the cemeteries of the old cities,
where it has been geologically deposited under
the industry of dentists"
AT the celebration, Thursday, in Pittsburgh,
of ''the hundredth anniversary of the occupa-
ton of Fort Duquesne by the British" we see, by
the papers, that the principal features were let
tiers from Hon. w. q. Seward, James Buchanan,
Douglas, Gov. Wise, Packer, Sec'y ofState Cass,
and others of the distingue. The letters of the
first two were political both hoping that the
people at the cheap ofnavigation" might, in their
posterity, celebrate the anniversary under the
projecting wing of the "ferce gray bird" of
American frcedom-even as the present gen
Grafton are permitted to do now.
We haven't the slightest doubt but what they
will.
Gov. Wise, as lis his wont, went off in
crowd by himself, as to style of letter writing.
He improved the occasion to give the Pittsburg.
ers an elementary lecture on civil engineering,
inviting their attention to the genius of Mr..
Elicit; now :.being developed in his project for
improving the Kanawha, by means of reservoirs,
the peculiar beauty of which is, that they pre-
vent scarcity of water during droughts and
foundations after heavy rains" Curious ma
chine that man Elicit has got no doubt.
Lager Bier likewise figured largely. Wereod
in the Gqzette's report, that
Lager Bier was immortalized yesterday. Kegs
oft, barrels of it, We're seen there. Coopers at
work on the big hogsheads and on the little
kegs, and one banner with German inscrip-
ton,
'.Lager Bier a, diesena LGnden
100 Yahren unbekannt,"
told a tale OF woe to the unfortunate men who
lived here before the great era of lager bier
They sung an ode, in the winding up-the
first verse of which reads:
One hundred years ago to-day,
In martial state the heroes came,
To plant within the wilderness
Their grand old English name and fame
They saw the glory of the land
The realm of nations yet to be,
And wrested from the allied foe
The Empire of the Free.
United thus may Saxon sireS
And sons forever face the foe,
And strike for Freedom as they struck,
One hundred years ago.
DIR. GAI1LARDEr, who broke champagne
bottle over the head of the proprietor of the
New York Hotel, and was in custody for the