New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-25

Man, with bis aches and his ails, and his general
most delightful heritage Of physical woe, was made
the sore sport and victim Of quack-salyers. Nor
has the world, in this regard, very much improved
since. A great many people who would at once
detect any other quack, are thoroughly humbugged
by the quack Of pin or of potion They give i'm
plicit cTedence TO the gibberish of every medical
mOuntebank, and it makes but little difference
whether be be fool who believes in bis own medi-
cines, or a knave who would not himself take them
without strenuous resistance. The case of Ben
nett rs Bennett s now pending in the courts in
New. Haven, from which the complainant seeks
divorce from the respondent, her husband, upon
the ground of cruelty The respondent is manu-
factuer Of pills, which are calcusted for the region
of the liver but will answer for the adjoining parts.
The complainant, in order to show tba. the Doctor
wos notorious, consummate and mos. accom-
pshed liar. put in pamphlet put out by him; and
it is to the unparalleled and really sublime men,
dacity of this Plll-Psmphlet that We wish to call
the attention of Amateurs OF Lying Ia the course
of this wonderful work, Dr. Bennett stated to an
invalid public, and especially to those who wept
their chidlessness, that he was, at one time, with
out ofspriDg, while the languisbing health of
Mrs. Bennett forbade him to indulge in
those pleasing hopes of paternity which
would otherwise have gilded his waking hours,
and filled his sleep with rapturous dreams.
But the Doctor was man of tremendous science.
He invented pill of such power, force and virtue
that, after taking it, Mrs. Bennett in an incredibly
short space of time, became the mother of twelve
d" blooming, healthy and interesting children" At
the head of this pleasing aud almost incredible mar
rative Of fruitfulness, the Doctor placed wooden
cut in which be was represented with baby in
bis arms and Mrs. Bennett was represented witha
baby in her arms, while around his legs and her
skirts were gathered ten other children, making, We
may be sure, the pretest work of art ever desgned
to illustrate the virtues of a pill. Diverted of
romance, the solemn truth was that, so far from
taking the Doctors medicine, the Doctors wife,
who knew too well what il was made of, aud who
was in fact obliged to assist in making it, would as
soon have swallowed henbane
Having u,ed up his wife by thus restoring her to
health, the Doctor, as he states in the pamphlet
next tackled bis father He sings this little nell
cinal idy with great JUNCTION and pathos. He rep
resents the el Ter Bennett, aged %. IN woOdcu,
reading the Bible. He then nsrrates that the s,id
senior Bennett Z" a number of years ago was very
" sick" He was attended by Eight celebrated
" doctors nigh. aud day and therefore the Won
der is that he lived for twenty-four hours. The
household is in despair. The dying maa then de-
hyers speech ia which he states tn,t although ne
had spent incredibly large sums in making DR..
Bennett, jr., doctor, yet that the vagrsnt pras.
titioner was ncw in foreign lands, acquiring by
personal obsery alton. knowledge of Indian Vese-
table Remedies. Tell him. when be arrives
said the dying old Bennett " that leave to his
mother the sum of 5 600, 600. aud to himself the
sum Of 81, o00, 600, toge her with all my vessels"
He here was taken'with shortness Of bresth the
neiehbors were sent for, and praying was com
menced, when suddenly, "a rumbling noise was
heard" in the street. Twas the youthful Bennett,
NJ ID. A rumbling noise Was heard in the distance,
" like mighty chariot, winding its way with great
speed nearer and nearer, rhen all at once (ex-
quisite bull y "a beautiful coach stood before the
door, out of which ahghted a noble and eleg,nt
&" looking man." This was young Doctor Bennett.
He kissed his mamma, and she tainted. He rushed
to the bed. side Of his dying papa. He fastened
back to his coach, which was freishted with
plants and roots, such as are always used by
" the red men Of the forest" when they feel un.
well. Young Bennett gave old Bennett q root,
and an herb. Old Bennett began TO feel better in
just two hours. He kept up the doses. He kept
the system regular. And the result was that the
ancie At person entirely recovered, and lived to be
ninety FIVE, and the grsrdfathe OF young Doctor
Benefits tSelve children.
The mystery to us is that such incredible nou-
sen,e as this should impose upon anybody-even
upon poor people, whose understandings are i'm
paired by disease. Tha. people are thus daily