Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-01-07

parlor, at dinner, in the street, everywhere DO
Ibear some story with relation to, or inquiry
as to the meaning OF, those mythical words,
posted, printed, and advertised wherever / go:
s. T.-1s60-X.
accompanied with a crescent and a shepherds
hook. A secession sympathiser said it was
Satan Triumphed in 1860 in granting the
Expectation Of the Abolitionists," while a Re
publican said il was. "Stump-Tail Democrats
of 1860 gone to Texas" another, ITO the
State Taxes of 1860 add ten (X) dollars an
other, that they we're the watchwords Of some
secret society, like, "Sons Of Tecumchia are
1860 Strong or Seward Tricksters of 1860
Used Up &c, &c. Well, your correspond
ent was ill-had been i'll for a long tims-in
fact his late suppers had given him a horrid
dyspepsia He read the advertisements, and
of course bought a bottle of Plantation Bit
tiers; the Bitters cured him, and on the bottle
appeared those same eabalistic letters: s.. T.
l-ls6Q,-X, | travelled straight for 2O2
Broadway, introduced myself to the celebra-
ted DR.. Drake, and was shown the elephant
tusks, s. r. and all-and a great institution it
is. A s~ix-story building in Dey street, from
cellar to garnet, is occupied as a laboratory for
producing this single medicine. Some forty
persons are employed; several watts holding
six thousand gallons each, are filled with
roots, herbs, and material, and then soaked in
water, and the expression preserved in pure
St Croix Rum. here saw the bags, boxes,
and bales of Calisaya Bark, Wintergreen, and
other material--and the original St Oroix
Rum puncheons bearing the Custom House
brand. 1t seemed that medicine could here
be turned out to supply q world of inyalids-
yet these gentlemen are unable to fill their Or
ders for Plantation Bitters alone, l was shown
many certificates of extraordinary cures ef-
fected by these Bitters. The statistics Of the
medicine business as presented to the last
Congress in the report Of Mr.. d. S, Barnes
are enormous and startling, amounting to
some six million dollars annually. The pro-
prietors of these Bitters will pay Uncle Sam
near fifty thousand dollars for stamps this
yearl With such individual resources gov
ernment loans ought to stand at par, and JEFF
ferson Davis might as well pack up and start
for Jerusalem. \ X j. Ii.
We are happy to reproduce the above letter,
and add that any ordinary case Of Dyspepsia,
Liver Complaint, Nervous Affection, Sour
Stomach, Lose Of Appetite, Nervous Head
ache, Diarrhoea, Sinking Weakness, Mental
Dependency, Nc, can be cured by the Plant
alton Bitters.
That all persons may Judge of its efficacy,
we publish n list OF some Of the articles used
in its preparation:
, CdLisaya Bark-Celebrated for over two
! hundred years in the treatment Of Fever and
Ague, Dyspepsia, Weakness, &c. 1t was in
. troduced into Europe by the Countess, wife
of the Viceroy OF Peru, in 1910, and was af
e forwards sold by the Jesuits for the enormou.
price of its oion height in siirer, under the
u name of Jesuifs Powders, and finally made
public by Louis XVI, King Of France, Hum
boldt makes especial reference to its febrifug,
Y qualities during his South American travels
u Cdscdrilld Bark-For dIarrhea, collie, an
diseases of the stomach and bowels.
DaHdelioR-For Inflammation of the loin
u and dropsical affections,
u 2Cdmomiie FOteerS-For enfeebIed diges
y ton. M
q Lavender Fiowers-Aromatic, stimulanl
and tonic-highly invigorating in nervous de
10 bility.
Winter Green-For s~crofula, rheumatism
u ARiSe-An aromatic carminative, ~creatin
. flesh, muscle, and milk; much used by mott
:, ers nursing.
u Also, Glove buds, orange, carraway, coriaI
~ der, snakeroot, DC, all preserved in perfect
,, pure "' iF
~ ST. OROIX RUM.