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Schenck's PuImoBic Syrup
Sea Weed Tonic,
AND
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Are the only Medicines needed to cure Con-
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TO do 10 make the lungs heal,
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J. H..SCHENCK, NJ. D.

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orator can readily determine whether cavity or
tubercleE have been formed in the lungs, and
whether patient can be cured or not; this they
may expect TO kuOE If they are examined BY
the Respirometer.
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ieAleFs tkroug hout the United States and Can
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Propaetors.
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Is
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-04-09

Fall dtreetious accompany all my remedies,
50 shat . person in any part Of tue world can be
readily cared by 6 strict observance CT the same.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-09-07
NUMBER 50.

ture partakes of the gnilt of both
murder and suicide, the man who
goes out on the g field of honor
(if the duel is in earnestly being pre-
pared to kill and be killed. Any rea-
soning, therefore, which justifes n
man in risl1ing his own life in n pri-
vate quarrel for the chance of taking
that of another, .justifes duelling.
And yet there are persons who pre-
tend to justify the custom on the
ground that its prevalence inspires
with a wholesome dread of conse-
quenees those who would otherwise
presume on their personal strength,
or those still worse disposed to COM
nit effenses against which the law
gives 10 efficient remedy. Unfortu-
nately for the force of this argument,
it is generally admitted by those
yersed in human nature, that where
the dread of being "called ont has
daunted one villain, or sileneed one
bully, the certainty of being dead
shot . has probably emboldened q
hundred.
This is subject, however, upon
which reasoning has very little prac-
ticaf effect. A man will admit the
force of all that can be said apout the
immortality and ahsurdity of dnelling;
but ii put to the test he will probably
display his lack of moral courage to
prove his possession of its inferior,
physical courage. A healthier tone OF
public sentiment on the subject is,
after all, the only cure for this as
for many other evils; and this
happily is gradually growing. The
man, nowadays, who refuses to fight q
duel, is not by any means subjected to
the opprobrium which would have as
sailed his grandfather fifty years ago.
Men can now see that if q man has
wronged another, he does not right
that wrong by shooting at him if he
has been wronged, he does not right
himself by becoming Il target for his
enemy. There can be very little " sat
isfaction in becoming either a homi
eide or a corpse.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-09-07

Of faith and wonder that man APP
proaches this faculty of waters, lee
turing and prescribing as they bubble
and administer themselves for the
healing Of the nations. Like true
physicians, they make no charge, and
the beggar is free to come as the par
venue.
A man came up behind me yester-
day, with his wife, at the Congress
Spring. He was large, well-to-do, and
grim, and genuine as any man who
had never tampered with Worcester
Sauce, nor knew the signification of
truffles. He and his wife drank in ST.
lence, he finishing his glass, and sit
ting it down and looking at it with a
business eye.
"Fhat is the worst water ever l
drank!n y said he. "That's not good
wateri"
Then, turning to his wife, and OBJ
serving that she slipped of hers, he said
suddenly, in the prompt air OF q dis
coyerer.
"That water physics %
| told the clerk at the hotel about it,
and pointed the man out.
"0h!n said the clerk, that man?
He has given up his room, and goes
off tonight. He says Saratoga is a
humbug; that he had heard it had
the best water in the world, but that
he had never tasted any so bad. He
says he prefers bilge- water to this"
No perfectly healthy system needs
much water OF this or any other class;
for water of any sort, in more than
moderate quantities, is not q benefit.
Cold water at the table, to drink while
eating, does its part to promote indi-
gestion, and substitutes for the diges-
ting secretions and fluids of the hu-
man system, another and different
solvent. The really healthy body is
able of itself to di gest what necessary
food, in moderation, has been eaten.
These mineral waters OF Natures pro-
yiding are for the sick; they are al
teratiye, cleansing or stimulating
beverages, and, to those who need
them, the very Champagnes of the
ground.
Very many men, in professional,
political, or town life, are more or
less sick all the time, without knowing
Inverted, irregular, bilious, with
perverted regimen, lean blood, azote
in excess, etc. TO such these springs
are both holiday and the doctor,
cleaning the system, regulating it,
giving the appetite tone, and the head
lest.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-09-07
The Hygiene of Saratoga.

The available springs this year are
not as numerous as in previous sea-
sons. The Crystal, High Rock, Sell
ger, and Star are not open to drink
ers. The Congress Spring is the vic
tim of broad-spread superstition, in
which l am implicated, of growing
steadily weaker. Asa man said yes
terday:
Z" 1t don't cathart half like it used
to-"
If this he true-and perhaps we do
the noble fountain injustice laying to
its weakness what should be aserib
ed to the growing obstinacy of the
American bowel, the loss lisa serious
one to mankind; for no saline water
in this country has been discovered of
equal efficacy and agreeableness.
Most of the newly-found springs, OBJ
tanned by boring, g,-such as the Geyser,
the Glacier, the Ballston Spa, and the
CRYSTAL are like the brine of the sea,
with no gentleness of visitation or con-
sideration for the palate. The Hat
horn Spring is offensive and fierce in
a less degree. Iron or sulphur III over
much proportion appears i'll other Sar-
at0ga waters; and lean toward the
belief that, at the present time, the
Empire Spring and the. High Rock
Spring are the best spas eat Saratoga,
taste and properties consulted. The
High Rock Spring is now being tap
ped and returbed at great cost, the
excavation being of the size of a city
dwelling, and a steam engine is drill
ling and lifting day and night; the
object is to find the seat of the sui
phur which gives it the taint of sui
phuretted hydrogen, to its consider
able disadvantage. a very good spring
here is the Excelsior, also; but it is
not at hand to visitors. The chief
drinking is done where the hotels and
springs stand side by side, for the gen.
tie invalids and lazy Lawrences OF
| Saratoga will not walk farther than
around the corner. Hence for catllar-
tic properties, the Hathorn and Con-
gress get nine-tenths of the patronage
of diuretic uses, the Hamilton and
Congress; and, for tonic needs, the
Columbian, Clarendon, Putnam, and,
/ perhaps, the United States. All these
springs, but the last, flow within bow
shot of each other. 1t is with sense
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-09-07

Dir. James II. Curry, for IL years
Chairman of the Central Republican
Committee of Yorktown, Westchester
County, n. Y, publishes card an
nouncing his retirement from that
position because he wishes to renounce
his allegiance to party which
makes fealty to Gen. Grant the test of
Republicanism." In conclusion he
says: "Mueh as have admired Gen.
Grant, | cannot be moment in
choosing between him and Horace
Greeley. | can, therefore, act on no
Republican Committees except they
he Liberal.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-09-07

GREENBAcKS IN LETTERs.--Thee ex-
tent to which the mails are used for
the transmission of money, and that,
too, in considerable sums, and in un-
registered letters, is brought to light
from time 10 time, by the reports of
the dead letter office, from which it
appears that near 100000 ill-direct-
ed, misdirected or undirected letters
found their way last year to that tomb
of the Capulets, and contained 81 each
on an average, $92, 900 cash in all,
yyith drafts and checks covering
$4,000, 900. Think of the disturbance
of usiness, as well as substantial loss,
involved in. these results of thought
lessaess. Four hundred thousand
lacked stamps, 5000 were posted with
ont direction, and, about 40, 900 lacked
State and county address.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-09-07

The following legend relates how Il
certain Grand Duke of Florence built
a bridge without expense to the State !:
The Grand Duke issued proclama-
tion that every beggar who would
appear in the grand plaza at certain
designated time should be provided
with q new suit of clothes free of cost.
At the appointed hour the beggars of
the city all assembled, whereupon the
officers caused each avenue of the pub
lie square to be closed, and then COM
PEELED the beggars to strip off their
old clothes, and give to each one, ac-
cOrding to promise, new suit. In
the old clothes thus collected enough
money was found concealed to build
4 beautiful bridge over the river Arno,
still called the Beggars' Bridge.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-09-07
One Term.
[From the New York Tribune.l


Since even some Americans will
persistently misunderstood, or with
equal persistence misrepresent the
One-Term Principle, we must not be
surprised to find the British newspa-
pers making q muddle of the matter.
The Saturday ReUieao, for instance,
which cannot see why any thing more
should be expected ftom Greeley
than Grant, g because Grant when
reelected would be in precisely the
position where, under a freedom from
temptation to aspire for another term
of office, he would labor more for the
country and less for himselfn Let
us see about this
/. What certainty is there that the
President "would not aspire for an
other term of office +? Other Presidents
have not done so, but then the Doc
tor lis not exactly like other Presi-
dents, and being probably the most
obstinate man in the Union, if not in
the known world ,how are we to know,
if there was money to be made out of
it, that he would not run for a third
term?
2. But admitting that he would
feel obliged to retire at the end of his
second term, is there not all the more
reason to suppose that he would i'm
prove his opportunities, and make
his hay, so to speak, while the sun
was shiningg He has squeezed the
Executive orange tolerably hard, but
if there is nojuice left, why is he SO
unwilling to loosen his hold of it ?
Moreover, if we take him for another
four years, we take his whole family
for the same period, and we keep in
place the whole list of household pen
sioners, from the paternal Postmaster
at Coyingtog, KY, down to the last
of the third or fourth cousins, wher-
ever they may be growing fat on
Treasury pap. There are special rea-
SONS why DR.. Grant should be con-
tent with One Term, and there are,
we admit, special reasons why he
shouldn't be. The main idea in his
mind is that he has got into a good
thing, and must, by hook or crook,
keep himself in. There viii be moth
ing in his reelection which viii
change him from what he is into a
political saint. On the contrary, we
have every reason to suppose that he
will be more of an Executive Ethio-
plan or leopard than ever, with a
dusbier skin or with a greater variety
of spots. There is only one word to
conveniently express what we shall
have, and that word is Grantisln."
It's barbaroIs word, but then it rep
resents a barbarous thing. Does the
country Wait felr more years of itg
g. What we need are Presi-
dents who viii not be biased by
hope of reelection during the first
term, thus securing another, during
which they will be perfectly regard
less of public opinion. Nor do we
want Presidents who, grown strong
by eight years of power, will be able
to designate their successors. HUI
man nature is infirm at the best, but
that President will most probably be
patriotic and single-minded who, hav-
ing reached the highest of political
places, will deem nothing so valuable
as a good historical reputation and
the sooner a man who holds the
place without any sense of its honor
and dignity is out of it, the better fol
this sorely tried Republic!
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Duelling.
lFrom the n. Q. Repnbliean. j

From the n. @. Republican.
The recent fatal duel in italy be-
tween an American gentleman and an
Italian nobleman Of high rank calls
attention anew to a custom which, it
appears, neither enlightened Chris
tianity, legal enactments nor common
sense has as yet been able to abolish.
We say enlightened Christianity be-
cause the duello is unquestionably the
offspring of the trial by combat, a re-
ligioas institution of the dark ages.
That in those remote times, when SUI
perstition held such dominion over
the minds of even the most enligllten-
ed. that the ordinary operations of
nature were regarded sometimes as
direct manifestations of divine inter-
ference, it is no wonder that such in
reference should be confidently ey-
peeted on the side of justice, especial
ly in answer to a direct appeal. Ac-
cordingly we find it an established Gus
tom for the wrongfully accused to stake
their character and fate on the result
of a single combat. When both acellser
and accused held the same faith on
the subject there is no doubt thatcon-
scioas right, trusting in divine aid,
frequently strengthened the arm of
the one, while conscious guilt by
ronsing his superstitious fears fire.
quently unnerved that of the other.
That some such expectation was the
prevailing motive in the original > SIM
gle combat is unquestionable, though
the custom of duelling very soon de-
generated into q mere passage at
arms in which each party felt that he
must rely on the temper of his weap-
on and his own skill and stregth in
its use. From being custom among
knights and noblemen in the settle
ment of disputes, ayenging of injuries
and establishing of honor, the custom
came by degrees to be regarded as
the distinguishing mark of gentle
birth and high breeding, and to such
an extent was this prejudice for a
long time carried, that to refuse to
fight duel when challenged would
have required more courage than to
fight fifty. The unreasonsbleness of
the custom did not attract public at
tention so soon as its immortality,
which led to the enactment of prohib
itofy laws against the practice almost
as soon as it became common. Such
laws were null. How could they be
when those who enacted
them were themselves guilty of the
offense they condemned, as III the
case of Francis |. of France, and
Charles Y. Of Germany.
France, indeed, may boast of being
the country where the modern dnello
had its birth. Thence it spread rapid
~ to other European nations, among
the ehiyalry and nobility. and those
who aped their vices, being upalle TO
initiate their virtues. III this country
duelIing has always been condemned,
and always been practiced condemn
ed by the religious and thoughtful,
praeticed by the Would-be chiyalrous
and high-toned; T; practieed sometimes
by those who condemned it, but had
not the courage to brave eensure aven
in the cause of reason and sound NOR
ality. Witness the case of Alexander
Hamilton.
In point of fact, duelling in It's ma