The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-04-14

hardened conscience. ssd his igssninious life
the various commodities In market whersev-
cry purchaser msst either be fool TO be 20
art Of swindllng. For nearly ninsteen eentu'
ries the Ssrmos on the Mount has been the law
OF the worlds commercial and social morality;
In our days, new prophet has spruag up, who
tolls u (hat 70 cheat Is no longer . wicked.
ness that TO lie ID no longer . condemned sx'
pedisDt that 70 gull the public IL the begin
ming and end Of oil wisdom that IN undetec.
ted robber 10 more honorable than poor hon.
est man that succsssfui gambler 10 one Of
nature true nobility that mamm0n worship
Ia the true devotion, and that hypocrisy. de-
ceit, lying, perjury, and fraud, are the legiti.
msts sets Of worship. Many Of our respects.
bic and pisus fellow citizens went TO see and
hear this foul .brainsd Apoststs from humanity.
We arc sorry Tor 1t. His audience should have
been confined 10 the ungodly spectators and
undetssted thieves Of our Bsighborhood.
A London correspondent writes TO the
New York Tribune that the Duke Of Cam
bridge-the blood Of all the Georges
not be content with seandslous connection
Of twenty.ooe years with whilon pretty
Miss -, by whom be has three grown
children but, like David OF old, bis royal
eyes were bewitched by the charms OF one
Of bis peoples wives and in his hot haste,
the right noble duke, forgetting the prudent
policy Of the great Psalmst Ia sending
Urish 10 the wars, has been taken 10 aa-
granite dei'eto and the injured party cries,
your forty thousand pounds or jury His
Grace says it Is not convenient for him just
now to pay more than fourth part Of the
demand.
A native OF Java--one NJ. VmSs--is
now In Paris. and exhibits wonderful and
mysterious skill In curing most malignant
and hitherto incurable disesses. lilo has
antidotes for virulent poisons, and thinks no
more Of the bite Of the cobra or rattIcsnakc
than an abrasurc OF the skin. A Paris
correspondent narrstes the following achieve
meut
PArisisns arc occupying themselves very
much about = mysterious doctor, n. Vres,
called The Black Doctor Of Java, who, they
say. has accomplished tho most marvellous
cures ~ " tno IARs, ehu MS huVce IN
sought even 81 tho most exorbitAnt prices, to
the great chagrin Of tho faculty physicians.
who have commenced . suit against him for
Illegal practice A petition has been address
ed to the Emperor by many Of the most inBu-
entail members Of the Institute and by many
high personAgcs, cured by the black doctor,
to shield him from their pursuits. Among the
well known persons that this physician Of the
" Thousand and One Nights =" has bsnsatted.
they cite N. Adolphe Sax, saved from horri
bic aud hitherto incarable malady Adolphs
had black cancer on his lip which. since 1853,
had caused him indispensable torture. NM.
Rleord and vslpean had abandoned oil hope
Of snseiing his cure, and his friends believed
him doomed. Tho black cancer. happily very
rare, conducts infallibly 10 death Of whom II
attacks. whsther treated by internal remedies
OF with the knife. Sax had arrived at that ex.
temity that . horrible operation became ne
cessary, his lips, his check must be sacrificed,
his face forever disHgured, and even then with
but narrow chance Of relief
Tho Black Doctor examined him. He told
him his disease was black cancer. but that he
could cure II. lie commenced HIS treatment in
June last aud BY dieting and Internal reIe-
dies, Sax found himself well In six months. IN
November the complaint seemed worse than
ever, but Vries was full Of confidence. lilo
told his patient to have his photograph taken
but, thinking the demand absurd, the latter 70
Iuseu, thouku unhily, ny unreal ot bbAnuoH'
ing him, the Doctor succeeded IN procuring
tho likeness. 81 desired this portrait" he
said, "of you In this state, because without Il,
whom you arc cured, others will not believe
that you ever we're M you are. Ina few days
you will be well'"
And. In effect, soms days after, the in1smmA
ton becsm horrible. the tumor moro frightful
than ever. II was like hot coal jevouring
ihe face Of the unhappy Sax. But, wonderful
To relate. the NAms scanned To de yOuF only the
evil thu cancer alone was burnt aud its car
honlscd Fragments, some Of them the siz . Of .
cherry, dropped away. To-day there IL not
the slightest SCAT even Of this formidable dis
ease before which the Swans were pswrrless.
In gratitude for this miraculous cure, Saa's
fricnds offered 10 the Black Doctor u banquet,
at which were one hundred aud iifty covers.
Among the guests we're Auber. Halevy, Ber.
lick, and other musical celebrities, and the &C.
cason wssa most enthusiastic one. The Black
postor said bu, little. bu, he ate heartily and
WAS highly honored.