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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-11-20
BRATTLEBORO, w.: NOV. 20, 1858.

looking veteran, with white hair, and empty
sleeve, and silken patch over one eye, peered
inquisitively into the carriage Like most En-
glishmen. l have particular aversion to the
continental fashion of men kissing and hugging
each other, but | confess beheld with interest
and sympathy the cordial embrace of these two
old comrades, who then quickly separated, and
with hands grasped looked joyfully and affection
ately into each others faces, whilst thousand
sad recollections of old kindness and long COM
radeship were evidently swelling at their hearts.
In this JOY, my travelling companion did not for
get the attentive listener, whose journey he had
so agreeably shortened. Turning to me, he pre-
sented me to hegeneral, as an Englishman and
new acquaintance, and then cordially invited me
to pass the rest of the day at his house. But
the business that took me to Orleans was urgent,
and my return to Paris must be speedy. And
had it been otherwise, think, should have
serupuled to restrain, by strangers presence,
the first glow of intimate communion to which
the two friends evidently looked forward with
such warm and pleasurable feelings. So CRATE
fully declined but pledged myself to take ad-
vantage of the doctors hospitality upon my next
visit to Orleans. When that occurs, shall have
to CLEAN another Russian reminiscence.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-11-20
DRUGS AND DISEASES.

1t is both popular and professional fallacy
that drugs and diseases stand to each other in
the relation of enemies. Disease is regarded as
an entity taking refuge in different parts of the
human system, for the purpose of working mis-
chief, and drugs as opponents, "eager for the
fray which are put into the mouth to seek out
the offenders in their hiding places, and hunt
them to death. Adrugis put into the system as
cat is put into the cellar to clear it of rats We
suppose that the practical entertainment of this
fallacy has been the cause of sickness and ddeath
to thousands of human beings; for there is no
more direct relation between drug and dis
ease than thereis between Goldfish and cheese
press. There is but one power, other than the
direct interposition of God, which can retore a
sick body to health, and this is what the doctors
call the ris medicdtrir nature. The restorative
power of nature itself holds the secret of every
cure, and all medicine must necessarily be ad-
dressed directly or indirectly to this power
Disease is an interloper upon the domain of
this power, and the whole art of medicine con-
sists in so stimulating or regulating or modify
ing the action of this power as to enable it to
throw off this interloper
If man have any vital energy left, this pow
er goes naturally, and at once, at work, to expel
disease when it makes an onset; and it is safe
to say one-half the diseases that afHict mankind
SCuiu oS tuiSt " PomSi aioHe, IL IL NcIc
allowed to have its own way; but as soon as
disease is felt down goes the pill or the powder,
and down goes the patient. Whatever may be
the merits of homeopathy, great or small, it is
not unjust to say that moiety of its success is
attributable to the fact that it allows the resto-
rative powers of nature to have their own way.
10 be dosed persistently with drugs-to edos-
ed largely with them-will make a healthy man
sick and one can see what chance the restora-
tive powers of sick man will have when strug-
Cling with both disease and medicine. Common
sense will help us a great way, if we will but use
it, and common sense is doing more for medi-
cine to-day than science is. 1t has diminished
the administration of drugs fully one-half and
the reforms yet inits infancy. If people would
but study the laws of nature, diet properly in
stead of drugging excessively, be regular in their
habits instead of regular in their doses, use COM
mon sense and cold water freely and the doctor
as little as possible, they would live longer,
suffer less, and pay little for the privilege.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-11-20
No. Al.

quences OF their obstruction, is an insignificant
evil compared with theloss of health and happi-
ness and life. The mischiefs which spring from
constipation, as the parent source, are as numer-
Gus in the vital domain as are the sins which. in
the moral world, originate from the evil one him
self If Satan is the father of lies, consultation
is the mother of infrmities.
Where, in all this broad land, is there a man.
woman or child whose bowels move naturally
who never require artificial aidsp There are
few such. And they are those who know almost
nothing OF sickness. They are strangers to dys-
pepsia, rheumatism, toothache, bronchitis. con-
sumption. They never have the cholera. They
are poof against yellow fever They are secure
from paralysis. They never die of apoplexv.-
Organic affections of the heart never trouble
them.
Constipation Of the bowels causes foul blood
and morbid secretions. These occasion corrupt
humors, which induce torpid livers, congested
kidneys, oppressed lungs, and congested brains.
Then follow rheumatic pains, headache, papita-
ton of the heart vertigo, sinking spells nervous
debility, lumbago, sciatica, standardization, piles
spasms, cocs, and, as more remote consequences
still, putrid fevers, pestilential epidemics, mag-
nant erysipelas, carbuncles and cancers And
the medicines which are given to cure these con-
sequences are worse than the diseases which they
cure.
Learned physicians look for the causes ofthese
prevalent maladies in the vicssitudes of the
weather i'll thermometrical variations in baro-
metrical states; in prevailing winds in fogs in
storms from the east in currents from the
south in tornadoes from the west in blasts
from the north; in commotons in the heavens
above; in convulsions in the earth beneath; in
ozone; in electricity; in animscules in excess
OF nitrogen; in deficiency of nitrogen; in some
fault OF hydrogen; in carbonaceous miasms in
want OF carbon; in catching cold in getting
hot in exposure /; in confinement; in everything
except-constipation
And why is the whole human race, with few
exceptions, sick and dying of consumption p
The complaint is scarcely known in the animal
kingdom below man. Why should the most
intelligent creature in existence be the only one
who cannot have healthful action ofthe bowels?
Surely there must be a cause. We charge the
whole of 1t to the prevalent system of cookery
worse in some families, and hotels and nations.
than in others, but bad, runous, killing, all over
the area of civilization. The remedy is not in
the direction of drug-shops and doctors, but in
that of food and cooks.-Life Illustrated.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-11-20
Approved, November 10, 1858.

a PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENoMENA.-The New
York Evening Post chronicles acase of the most
interesting character to those who would be-
come acquainted with the internal organism of
the human frame. The subject is NJ Groux,
native of Hamburg, now in New York. He is
about twenty-eight years of age, under the aver
age hight, and rather pale, though he appears
to be in health. He is deficient ina breast bone,
so that the several movements of the heart are
easily seen. The substance which occupies its
place is supposed to be cartilage. The collar
bones are not connected, (neither are the ribs
to their opposites,) but there is groove where
the breast bone should be; the skin is natural.
In its natural state this groove is about an inch
and a half wide, but it can be distended to three
inches. On looking at the groove pulsatile
swelling is discernible opposite the third and
fourth ribs; if respiration be suspended it rap
idly rises to an enormous extent, aad remains
full and tense until the breathing is restored,
when it soon subsidies. This is the heart. Be-
tween the clavicles there is another pulsatile
swelling easily felt which is the aorta, the great
artery from the heart. The dilation and con-
traction of the lung is also seen. In coughing,
the right lung suddenly protrudes from the chest
through the groove, and ascends a considerable
distance above the right clavicle into the neck
Somebody's desire that there might be a window
in the breast of all men, or Charles Lambs
equivalent, pane in the stomach, seem nearly
realized in NJ. Groux's case.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-11-20

DEMONSTRATION very many of us, old
boys, remember to have spouted on declama-
ton days, the justly celebrated speech of Lo-
gan to Lord Dunmore-"I appeal TO the white
man to say, if he eper entered Logan's cabin
hangrg, and he gare him no meat, De- This
speech may be found on page 81, of Jefferson's
Notes on Virginia, ed. of 1888. The descend
ants of Col. Cresap, whose cruel desolation of
Logan's cabin, and destruction of his family,
gave occasion to this famous burst of Indian
eloquence, had accused Jefferson of having
manufactured the speech, to refute Buttons
theory of the degeneracy of men and brutes,
in America. In denial of the charge of fabri-
cation, Jefferson states, in letter TO Gov. Hen
ry, Dec. 81, 1897, that he learned the speech of
some person, of whom he cannot say, and he
thinks, at Lord Dunmore's; transferred it to
his pocket book, and thence to his Notes on
Virginia. Mr.. Randall, vol l., p. 104, says
at appears, as he states, in one of the pocket
books of that period, now lying before us.
In the Notes, we well remember another ex-
ample of Indian magnanimity. Col. Byrd was
captured by the Cherokees and II was resolved
to put him to death. A chief, called Silonce,
had, on former occasion, conceived friend
shin for Byrd, and came to him every night,
telling him not to be afraid, they should not
kill him. After long deliheration, however, it
was resolved that Byrd should die, and some
warriors were sent, as executioners. Silonce
attended them, and when they entered the tent,
threw himself between them and Byrd, saying
"this is my friend before you reach him. you
must kill me-" On which they returned. The
council respected the principle, and abandoned
their purpose.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-11-20
MR.. CLAY TO THE BOYS.

The Western Farmers Almanac for 1859 con-
tains letter from the sage of Ashland to one
of his namesakes, which has never before been
published, and is so characteristic of that great
man that we take pleasure in transferring it to
ouf columns
ashland, IN July, 1915.
MY DEAR LITTLE ENAMEsAKE Your parents
have done me the honor to give my name to
you. On that account, and at the request OF
your good mother, l address this note, which
she wishes to preserve for your perusal, when,
by the lapse of time, you shall have attained an
age that will enable you to comprehend and ap-
preciate its friendly purport.
Your parents entertain fond hopes of YOU,
and you ought to strive not to disappoint them.
They wish you to be good respected, eminent.
You can realize their most sanguine hopes, il
you firmly resolve to do so, by judicious en-
ployment of your time and your faculties. Shun
bad company, and all dissipation-its inevitable
consequences. Study diligently and perseyer-
ingly. You will be surprised at the ease with
which you will master branches of knowledge
which, at first view, will frighten YOU. Make
honor, probity, truth and principle your invari-
able guides. Be obedient, and always affection
ately respectful to your parents. Assduously
cultivate virtue and religion, the surest guaran-
ty OF happiness, both here and hereafter. In
your intercourse with your fellow beings, be
iirm, but at the same time bland, courteous and
obhging. Recognize at all times the paramount
right OF your country to your most devoted SER
vices, whether she treats you i'll or well, and
never let selfish views or interests predominant
over the duties of patriotism.
BY regulating yourself according to these
rules, you may become respected and great be
an ornament to your country, and blessing to
your parents. That such may be your destiny.
is the sincere wish of their and your friend.
Master Henry Clay. H. CLAY.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-11-20

PICKLED WALNUTs AND A WONDERFUL PAR
ROT. The Charleston Mercury says that GER
tain lady, who was famous for making good
picked walnuts, and was very fond of eating
them, too, one season discovered that her lars
were empty before she had fairly tasted her ia
vorite pickle. She called her servants to ac-
count but each one denied having meddled
with the jars and the good lady determined, if
possible, to find out the thief. So she made
another fine lot of pickles, and placed them on
the shelf in the same store-room, keeping a
daily watch upon them. To her great surprise
she discovered no other than her pet parrot to
be the pilferer of her pickle jars. She caught
him hooking out the walnuts with his crooked
beak, and in her anger she dashed upon him a
pitcher of hot water, which she CHANGED to have
in her hand.
Poor Poll was in sad plight, both in suffer-
ing and appearance his bright feathers all fell
out, and he was long in this naked condition,
During this period of probation, a venerable
friend of the lady, who was quite bald, one day
came to visit her. Poll waddled quietly into
the parlor, and, climbing upon the back of the
old gentleman's chair, seemed to be for some
time intensely examining his bald head then,
growing bolder, she got upon his shoulder, and
with beak upon the bald spot cried:
$50, so you've been at the picked walnuts,
too, have youP"
Extraordinary as this story seems, we know
a gentleman at Bridgeport, Ct, Captain
Brooks), who has parrot that has said equal
ly remarkable things. A visiting clergyman
was taking breakfast at Captain Brooks's hos
pitable table one morning, when the parrot, OBJ
serving that the visitor was most literally help
ed to beefsteak, exclaimed-"Well, l think
you've had your share"-or words to that effect
This rude speech of "pretty Poll" must have an
noyed the hospitabe Captain; but the guest
readily understood that it was merely repeti-
ton of remark which the parrot had heard
applied to herself on some previous occasion.
N. Y. Commercial ADVERTISER
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-11-20
CONSTIPATION.

There is no single word in Websters Una
bridged Dictionary, from aam to zythum inclu-
sive, which, to our mind is so expressive of hu-
man misery and physiological depravity as this.
1t is mainly because our bowels are constipated
that the people of these United States support
twenty-five thousand drug-shops and forty five
thousand doctors at an annual expense of more
than hundred millions of dollars. And it is
because of this that our people pay the quacks
of the irregular trade several millions year.
But the loss of the money expended in at
tempts to make the bowels of the community
move, and in indeavors to obviate the conse-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-11-20

1t is pretty generally conceded by physicists,
at the present day, that the globe Of the sun is
dark opaque body, enveloped in cloudy re-
flecting atmosphere, and above this by the self
luminous photosphere. Accordingly, the lumi-
nous area is not the surface of the body of the
sun ITSELF but that of a surrounding gaseous
substance. The spots on the sun are simply
openings in his envelope of luminous and cloudy
strata, exposing his dark body to view. The
dark nuclei of the spots are portions of the sur
face of the non-luminous globe of the sun, and
their penumbral fringes are the interior cloudy
stratum, which is strongly illuminated by the
enveloping photosphere, while the globe of the
sun is screened from the luminous medium by
the cloudy atmosphere. These openings are
supposed to be effected by powerful. perhaps
upward, currents Of the solar atmosphere, which
represent immense physical agitations that are
beyond comparison with terrestrial phenomena
Both of the enveloping strata are temporarily
removed by these agitations.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-11-20
VOL. XIV.
POETRY. P
"Do rot THINK HE IS MARRIEDi"


Madam!-you arc very pressing,
And can't decline the task,
With the slightest gift Of guessing,
You would hardly need to ask
Don't you see hint Of marriage
In his sober-sided fnce?
In his rather STOPPING carriage
And extremely rapid pace2
II he's not committed treason,
Or some wicked action done,
Can you see the fointest reason
Why bachelor should runp
Why should he be in hurry?
But loving wife to greet,
Is r1ums.ance to hurry
The most dignified feet!
When afar the man has spied her.
If the grateful happy elf
Does not hnste to be beside her,
He must be beside hmselfl
1t is but trihe, may be-
But observe his practiced tone,
When he calms your stormy baby,
Just as if it weR his own!
Do you think Il certain meekness
You have mentioned in his looks,
Is n chronic optic weakness
That has come Of reading books?
Did YOU ever see his vision
Peering underneath hood,
Save enough for recognition,
As civil person should!
Could a Capuchin be colder
When he glances MS he must,
At finely rounded shoulder.
Or a proudly-swelling bustP
Madam think Of every feature,
Then deny it, if you call
He's fond connubial creature,
And rery married man:
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-11-20

s. s. JOY
homeopathic Veterinary Surgeon,
II attend to all Of Diseases Of Horses House OF
WALNUT street.
brssissofo, Dec, ID, 1867
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-05-20
DR.. MARKS,

uAVlNG resumed the practice Of medicine
L may always be found at his Office IN the
Public Square, opposite the Lewistown Hote!
May I, I857.-tf
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-05-20
HOVER'S LIQUID HAIR DYE.

THE testimony OF Prof Booth and Dr Brinckle having
previously been published, The following is added
From Prof NcCLosEEy, formerly Professor ef Theory
auI Practice Medicine in the Female Medical College
Of PeHnsy vaHa, aud late Professor Of Surgery the
American College Medicine. &c.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 9th, 1856.
Mr.. Joseph Z. Hoover A tral of your Liquid Hair
Dye viii the optical that II is safe, ee
giant aud efirari0us preparation. Unlike many others,
il has IA several Instances proved servceahe ia the
Of some culaueuus cruptious the head and have
hesitation in commencing II 20 those requiring suCh
appli alton Very respectfully
!. f. MCCLosEEY,N N D.,
10 Race above 18Th.
HOYER'S WRITING INKS, including Hover's Wi.
ting Fluid aud lIavrfs indrule laks, still nan,ai ther
high character which has always Them. and
the extensive dIaaUd first created has couaucd
rupied until the present.
Orders addressed to the Mandatory, Nc. 4lG Race
street above Foath (5d No. lllD Philadelphia, will
cefve pronpt attention hy 10 EPIi j.. HOVER,
tecl7 M1nfaciuTFr.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-05-20
aeoIltteaI.
PHILADELpHIA's JEWELS.

By a glance at the House of Represent
atives of Pennsylvania, when that body is
in session, we may see the character and
political complexion of the several portions
of this great State. One might expect to
find the various sections represented by
talent to sustain and protect the interests
of the many districts. Philadelphia, our
great commercial metropolis, with its many
and complicated interests, we might reason
ably expect to see represented by ability
equal to the guardianship of such city.
But, reader, what think you of the pair of
burly Irishmen, apparently just from the
Sod who sit to the left of the Speaker,
strongly impregnated with the fumes of
bad whiskey and worse tobacco, and who
do the voting for Philadelphia city! Do
you know that j. II. Donnelly and James
Donnelly, both representing Philadelphia,
are Catholic Irish draynaeu, not over st,c
gears in this country, and one of whom at
least, it is said, cannot read or aorjte!9 ?
A few days after the late election, some
of The friends of one of the Messrs. Don
nellys called to congratulate him upon his
election, when he delivered the following
eloquent spdach:
Now, gintlemen, if ye come for spaaeh,
bejabers yell get no spaach from me; but
if It's my character ye want to know, jest
call on Dennis O'Flagherty and he'll tell
you all about me- Moo, gintlemen, tis
great hammer to be alicted to office by the
great dimmecrat party-but I've done a
power of sarYice for the party. I've been
sax years in Amereky and durin all that
time I've been a yotin' for the dimmecrat
party. I've got power o my countrymen
to vote for it too, and I've voted power o
times mesef in them sax years
Have we come to this, that an illiterate
Irish drayman, not long enough in the
country to understand even the nature of
the government, shall sit to legislate for
the great commercial interests of our State?
Are these the specimens of the men from
whom the democracy of Philadelphia are
compelled to select their Legislators? Must
this party submit to the behests of Popish
minions, and suffer such infections in order
to preserve harmony in its ranks and secure
success? Oh! shades of Penn upon what
times have we fallen? Is the city of Broth
erly Love destitute of sons who can look
to her own vital interests?-4mertcau Her
aM
The recent election in Philadelphia, it is
to be hoped, viii keep such jewels at their
drays.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-05-20
HOWARD ASSOCIATION
PHILADELPHIA.

= BeHfroeH fasii'nio", estabtedby special
for tte reiis II tie sick and distressed. iced l5h
PiruleHt and Epiden,i- Diseases.
no al persons afflicted with sexual Diseases such as
Spcrmatorrhga, Seminal Weakness Impotence Con
orrha, Gieat syphilis, the vice Of Oaanisfn or Self
Abuse, &c. &c.
The Howard Association in view Of the awful destruc-
ton Of human lif- caused by sexual Diseases aud the
decepions aacised upon the unfortunate victims of such
Diseases by Quecs several years agoa rected their Con-
suting Surgeon, a Charitable Act worthy Of their
class OF diseases, Ia all their IruIs, give Medical
Advice GRATIS, to ali who apply hy letter, with a de-
scpiion Of their condition, Gage, occupation, habits Of
hf", &c) aud in Of extreme poverty TO furnish
Medicines Free Of charge Il is needless add that The
Association commands the highest medical skill Of the
age. and will furnish the most approved modern
The Directors, review Of the past feel
sured that their iabors in this sphere of effort
have been Of great benefit The afflicted especially
the young and they have resolved devote themselves
with renewed zeal to this very important brj much de-
spised cause
Just pahIished by the Associations Report on Sper-
Hatarrhua, seminal Weakness the vice OF Onauisn,
Nasuf5ron self Abusr, and other Diseases Of The
sexual Organs, by the Consulting Surgeon which Will
by naii On sealed tnveope} Free of Charge.
receipt OF Two Stamps for postage Address for Re-
port treatment, DR.. GEORGE r. CALHOUN, Consult
ing Surgeon Howard Association, No. South Ninth
street, Philadelphia, Pa Ey order nf the Directors
EZRA d. HEARTWELL, President.
GEo. FAIFcHILD, Secretary dec3