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MmmmWP n mn . 3 I x office up stairs opposite SCARR'S DRUG STORE A Family Paper, devoted to State Intelligence, the News of the World, Political information. Southern Rights, Agriculture. Literature, and Miscellany. BY WILLIAM J. YATES, EIITOR AND PROPRIETOR. CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. $2 PER ANNUM In Advance. ffE. A. YATES, 'P ASSOCIATE EDITOR. ' VOLUME 6 Number 273. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1857. THE moctat Published every Tuesday Containing the latest News, a full and accu rate Report of the Markets, &c. r..r the vear, if paid in advance,. . . .$2 00 If paid within six mouths, 2 50 J f paid after the expiration of the year, 3 00 ' VAi'v person sending us five new sub KcrUien, accompanied by the advance sub seription ($10) will receive a sixth copy gra ti- fr one jtmt. r3F"Subscribcrs and others who may wish ( , ml money to us, can do so hy mail, at ,,tir rik. ADVERTISING. Die i ; in-c of C lines or leas, for 3 months, $1 00 u " " " 6 " 6 00 M 11 " 10 00 ( t ie s luare, 16 lines, or less, first insertion, 91 00 Each subsequent insertion, 25 Transient advertisements must be paid for i" advance. ;VK'r announcing lg Candidates for office, ." in iiilviinci'. VW Advertisements not marked on the mmuscripi for a specific time, will be in-Bt-rted until forbid. and charged accordingly WILLIAM J. YATES. Land lor Sale. The subscribers offer for sale A ere of JLancl In one body (one thousand of which is in woods) lying in Gaston county on both sides of the Swath Fork of the Catawba River, 1 1 mil North-west of Charlotte, and within Hire' miles oi the nne oi nai.roaa uow Duuuiug trcim Charlotte to 1meoliiton. Also, Twii Hundred Acres, one-third of which n under cultivation. Also, JEW Acres ou the South Fork in a good stale of cultivation. The above are jm.1 Farming Lands, and will be sold in lots to suit purchasers. Terms easy. On one of the tracts there Ls a water power of -' Rft, with command of the whole River. Persons wishing to examine these Lands will be attended to bj the parties at Stowcsvi'le. J. &. E. b. S I OWE. Charlotte, June 2. 1857. 48-tf a . 1 a n , . . , i 1 oOO Head of Beel' battle Wanted. Also, 500 HEAD OF SHEEP 6l 100 I t t i c tinnc And 12 or 15 No. 1 Milch tows. 1 DESIRE to purchase the above amount of Stuck. Those having any for sale will do well to jrive me a call, as 1 am willing to pay the highest nuu ket price. Farmers will find it to their advan tage to .-ell their Beeves, heen t.r Hon to me instead of butchering themselves, as 1 think I can n mnnerate them as well if not better than ii thev butchered themselves. W. A. COOK. harlotte. July 14, 1857. Town Butcher. BOOTS & SHOES. Just Received FOR TUB SPRING & SIMMER TRADE, As fine an Assortment of Boots nxaei Slac As lias ever been offered to a Southern People. Call and see them at r, M NE & CO'S STOKE. gW Terms. CASH. March 17, 1S5T. tf DR. R. WYSONG, Charlotte, It. C. H AVING located in this place, respectfully offers his Professional Services to the citi zens af tke town and vicinity. .' W OFFICE in the new brick building, opposite the burnt district, Main Street. April 28th 1,-57. BREM & STEELE, Wholesale and Retail Dealers is Hardware, Hat, and Shoe, CHARLOTTE, N. C. May 5, 1857. 44-tf II. UF. ALEXANDER, Attorney at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office over China Hall. August 1 1, Ifvw. y VALUABLE PLANTATION FOR SALE. The subscriber being desirious of removing to the West, offers for sale his valuable TRACT OF LAND, h inr 4 miles south of Charlotte, on the Charlotte and Columbia Kailroad, containing about 4QO Aores- 150 is in cultivation. 7." f which is fresh land. The balance is woodland e.xeept 30 acres. hi the premises is a good Dwelling House and all neees- l sarj out houses, a Gin-House and J Screw, Ace. Then' is au excellent Well of water in the yard. A Cold Mine has been opened on the land. Persons dearioua of purchasing a Plantation with almost every advantage, would do well to eall and examine the premises, ss it is seldom tiut sueh property is offered to the public. Kf grot's will be taken in whole or for a part of the purchase money. I will take pleasure in showing the Laud to anyone desirous of pur r tuning. Possession given by the 1st of Janu ary. IpoS. B. K SMITH. Aup 11, 1857. VJ-tf Country Merchants Are respectfully invited to eall and examine my Wholesale r rnces or uhoicf. AND MEDICINES, put up in an v style to order, by PRITCHARD, Druggist and Apothecary, July 28, 1857. Irwin's Corner. White Lead. 1 O.OOO Lbs. White Lead, in oil, just received and for sale at PRITCHARD'S Aug. 18. Drug House. Paint or Linseed Oil. 300 Gallons just received and for sale at the lowest market prices, at PKITCHARD'S Aug. 18. Drug if Chemical Store. VARNISHES ! VARNISHES ! A large stock now on hand, consisting of Demon, Furniture, Copal, Coach-body, Ja pan, &c.,' which will be sold for cash lower than any other House in Charlotte, at H. M. PRlTCHARD's Wholesale &. Retail Drug Store, Aug. 18. Irwin's Corner. PUTTY, PUTTY, PUTTY. 1,000 Lbs. Putty, just received in as sorted cans, and for sale at PRITCHARD'S Aug. 18. Drug Store. Otto of Rose. A large assortment of Lubins', Glenn's and J. Hanles' splendid EXTRACT TOILET WATERS, Soaps, Brushes, &c, &c, just at hand, at Pritchard's Fancy Drug Store, July 28. Irwin's Corner. Port Mommies. A new and beautiful assortment, just received at Pritchard's Drug and Chemical House, July 23. Irwin's Corner. Blake's Aromatic Bitters, An excellent Tonic and anti-Dyspeptic medi cine, just at hand at Pritchard's Depot of choice Family Medicines. July 28. Irwin's Corner. SOLUBLE ESS. OF CAMPHOR, For diseases of the Throat, Mouth, Stomach and Bowels, prepared and sob! at PrifchareFt Drug and Chemical Store, Ju'y 18. Irwin's Conner. Condition Powders. Farmers and others interested in fine Stock, are assured that these preparations are unsur passed as a h alth-giving remedy for Horses, Cattle, and all kinds of Stock. For sale at Pritchard's Wholesale and Retail Drug House, Ju'y 28. Irwin's Corner. Patent Medicines. Call at PRITCHARD'S DRUG STORE Irwin's C orner, for the most approved and popul .r medicines of the day. July 28. Dye Stuffs, Dye Stuffs, The very best of this class ol articles, con sisting, in pait, of Solution of Tin, Extract of Logwood, Cochineal, Madder, &e, may bL bought low at Pritchard's Drug House, July 28. Irwin's Corner. BOOKS AT THE CHARLOTTE BOOK STORE. The American Sportsman : containing hints to Sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the Game Birds and Wild Fowl of America, by Lewis. The Golden Legacy: a story of Life's Phases. Kills from the Fountain of Life, or Ser mons to Children, by Rev. R. NEWTON, D. D. The Daisy Chain or Aspirations: a Family Chronicle. Shoepac Recollections : A Way-Side Glimpse of American Life, by Waler March. Kathie Brande: a Fireside History of a Quiet Life, bv HoUtE LEE. Household Mysteries, by Lizzie Pitt. El Gringo, or New Mexico and her People. Paul Fane, by N. P. Willis. Veva, or the War of the Peasants and the Conscript: two interesting Romances bound in one volume. The Napoleon Dynasty, or the History of the Bonaparte Family: an entirely new work, by the Berkley Men, with twenty-two authentic Portraits. Call at T. J. LOWRIES liook Store. March 31, 1857. 39-tf H. B. Dowler &. Co's CELEBRATED WHEAT FANS. The subscribers are now engaged at Monro-1, Union county, N. C, in putting up the above named Fans. In their manner of construction and operations and entire adaptation to the pur poses for which they are designed, these i ans are unequalled by any that have heretofore been offered to the public. Thev are constructed ot the best materials, and none but the best work men are employed. An experience of five years in the business justifies the belief that entire satisfaction will be given. All our work is warranted. All orders will receive prompt attention and the machinery delivered according to order. References: D. A. Covington, J. P. Houston. Mnnroe, N C. James B Robinson, Benj Morrow, Mecklenburg county. Win G Smith, Dr Wadkins, Anson county. ROSE fc STEEL. Monroe, Union county, March 20th. 6m Dissolution. The firm of MILLER & ORR was dissolved by mutual consent on the 6th of July. Those indebted to the late firm will please make imme diate pavment. H. S. MILLER, Aug. 4, 1857. DAVID ORR. CITY OF MOREIIEAD!!! GREAT SALE OF LOTS!! ON THE ELEVENTH (11th) DAY OF November next, at the City ot Morebead, will be sold at public auction, the Lots of said City. This is the new City laid off by the "Shepard's Point Land Campany," at the terminus of the At lan'ic and North Carolina Rail Road, at Beaufort Harbor, N.C., immediately at theAtlantic Ocean. The various Reports of the U. S. Coast Sumy establish the great excellencies ot this Harbor, for facility of entrance, depth of water and security from wind or wave, whilst Fort Macon completely commands the entrance. The interior communications by water and land must make this a great Commercial City. The vast productions of the fertile valleys of the Roan oke, Tar and Neuse Rivers and the commerce of those great inland seas the Albemarle, Currituck, Craotan and Pamlico Sounds, will reach this fine Harbor through Core Sound on the north, whilst Bogue Sound will bear on its bosom the agricultur al products, lumber, naval stores and fine ship tim ber of the regions lying south. The A. & N. C. Kail Road which will be ready for use by the first of January next, passes through the entire length of the City to its wharf in 18 feet water at low tide, and connects with the great N. C. Rail Road (ot which it is a continuation) at Coldsboro'. The N. C. Rail Road, among the best in the Union, 213 miles long, is completed to Charlotte, where it connects through the South Carolina and Georgia Rail Roads with Atlanta and the south west; and by its western extension, now in rapid progress, it is contemplated to reach the tiade ol Memphis and the Mississippi Valley by the net work of all the rail ways that connect at Atlanta, Cha:tanooga, or with the East-Tennessee Rail Road. The Port of Beaufort, Chattanooga, Memphis and bu Diego in the racihe, are about the same parallel of lattitude; and if that parallel be extend ed across the Pacific, it will reach Shanghai, the nearest treat Port on the eastern ( ontinent : therefore, if the Pacific Railroad ever be construct ed (and that should be done forthwith) why may not this new City became the Atlantic mart for the commerce of the East Indies? Two short Railroads will connect the two great Coal Fields ot the State, lying on the north and 6ouih of the North Carolina Railroad, with that road : and it is confidently expected that a vast coal trade will be carried on through the new city: it so, may not lleaulort become a great coaling Port, not only for purposes of commerce, but to luruish the supplies to steamers passing so near the entrance going north and south ; ana may not the new city become (hat great "entre depot" be tween the north and south, to which our able and distinguished countryman, Lieut. Maury, refers in his unrivaled Statesmanlike paper on the com merce of the Amazon, South America and the Gulf of Mexico ? The ciiy of Morehead is situated on a beautiful neck of land or drf plain, almost entirely surround ed with salt water: its climate is salubrious ; its sea-breeze and sea-bathing delightful ; its drinking water good, and its fine chalybeate spring strongly impregnated with sulphur, will make it a pleasant watering place As not a lot has been or will be sold until the day of sale, all will have an equal chance to get the best lots and to suit themselves. It will be the first instance of an entire new city on the Atlantic coast being brought into market at once ; and capitalists may never have ayaiii such an opportunity for good investments, for a great citv must and will be built at this place. J. M. MOREHEAD, President of Shepperd's Point Land Co. September 1, 1857. llw Grass Seeds!! (wrass Seeds!!! A large assortment just received, comprising the following varieties : White Clover, Red Clover, Timothy, Millet, Blue Grass, Lucerne, fyc. The above seeds are warranted to be FRESH and GENUINE. For sale at Pritchard's Wholesale A; Retail Drug House Aug. 25, 1857. Irwin's Corner. State of North Carolina, UNION COUN'l Y. Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, July Term, 1857. Stewart, Houston, and ") Covington, Original vs. Attachment. Wyatt Austen. j It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the Defendant, Wyatt Austen, is not an inhabitant of this State, but resides beyond the limits of the same; it is therefore ord. red that publication be made for six weeks in the Western Democrat, notifying said de fendant to be and appear at the next Court, to be held for the county of Union, at the Court House in Monroe, on the first Monday of October next, then and there to plead, answer or demur, or final judgment will be taken against him. Witness, J. M. Stewart, Clerk of our said Court at office, 1st Monday of July, 1857. 6t J. M. STEWART, Clerk AWord to the South!!! ALL classes of persons are well aware that the Northern portion of the United States, consisting of all persons North of Mason and Dixon's line is opposed to the South and her institution, and are at open war against her rights, still we are so blind to our interest that we are encouraging them to wield their influence against us by our aiding in building up their merchants and manufactures to au opulence not excelled by any in Europe. Money is power, and they have it, and the greater portion is ob tained from the South, and it is done is this way: our merchants and men of wealth go there and buy of their manufacturers, &c., all artic les that they need, consisting of agricultural implements of all kinds, boots, shoes, leather, and not least of all is the purchase of ReadyMade CLOTHHG, which they buy and bring to the South, and sell at au under value defrauding and depriving the poor tailor of that encouragement which, as a eitizen of the South he is justly entitled to. As an example, the subscriber to this article isaTai lorbv trade, and is every way qualified to carry on the Tailoring Establishment as any person North, but owing to the suicidal mode of pur chasing this ready made Northern slop work, he is actually suffering for the necessaries of life, no encouragement, no patronage given him, all classes buy the Northern slop work, which costs them more" than double in the long run than that same work done by a home mechanic would do. I propose to warrant all my work, that it will fit the person, and wear well, and also that I will work as cheap as any other Tailor in the South or North. Give me a trial. Call at my shop, 1 Door East of T. M. Farrow's Grocery Store, where you will find me at all times ready, and prepared with the latest London and Paris fash ions to tit you in the latest styles. Yours, Respectfully, D. L. REA, Tailor. Aug. 25, 1857. K M. MURCHISON. A.J.HOWELL. MURCHISON 6l HOWELL, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, jTto. 104 Wall Street, JT. 1. Feb. 3d, 1857. ly WESTEMDEMOCRAT. CHARLOTTE. Free Negroes Purchased by a Slave. A few days ago, says the Norfolk Herald several free negroes were put up at auction in Norfolk county, and sold to labor for a term sufficient to liquidate their taxes. Singular to relate, four of them were pur chased by a slave in Portsmouth, who felt quite proud of the distinction and made known his determination to get the full value of his money out of them or know the reason why. Let the negro worshippers at the North make a note of this. Beautifully Said. We make the following beautiful extract on a Home stead Exemption law, from a letter written by a distinguished Judge of Tennessee : "Secure to each family whose labor may acquire it, a little spot of free earth that it may call its own that will be an asylum in times of adversity, from which the mother and the children, old age aud infancy, can still draw sustenance, and obtain protec tion, though misfortune may rob them of all else, and they feel they are still entitled to walk the green earth, and breathe the free air of heaven, in defiance of the potency and power of accumulated wealth and the domineering of the pretending and ambi tious. The sacredness of that consecrated spot will make them warriors in times of external strife. 'These shocks of corn,' said Xenophon, 'inspire those who raise them to defend them. The largest of them in the field is a prize exhibited in the middle stage to crown the conqueror. Secure a home to every family whose labor may obtain one, against the weakness, vices, or misfortunes of the fathers, and you will rivet the affection of the child in years of manv.ood by a stronger bond than any con sideration that could exist. He will re member where he gamboled in his early youth, the stream upon whose flowery i banks he felt a mother's kiss and a mother's love, and the green spot within that little homestead where sleep the loved and the lost." THE SIAMESE TWINS. The editor of the South Western Baptist, published in Tuskegee, Ala., recently paid a visit to Surry county, N. C, and among the pleasant reminiscences ofthe trip, we find the following account of his visit to the celebrated Siamese Twins: " They live within three miles of Mount Airy, and are among the be$ citizens of that community. We visited and spent about two hours in conversatior with them. We were kindly received, andean add to the common testimony of their neighbors, that they are much of gentlenen. They speak our language very fluently, and are very intelligent. We are sorry that we cannot give our readers more information concerning them; they are often troubled by qtestions of prying cur'esity, and we, out of respect for their feelings, did not question tkem; hence wo nay be incorrect in some of our state ments. They were born in Sian in 1811, and came to this couutry in their 18th year. For many years they exhibited themselves in various parts of the United States, and finally married two sisters in Wilkes co., North Carolina, lived a few years in that county, then removed and settled in Surry county, where they now liv. They are small men with Eastern complexion, and are connected by a ligature from the body sufficiently long for them to stand side by side with convenience; the ligature is about three inches broad. A sufficient number of physicians have decided that death would ensue upon cutting this ligament to prevent the attempt, hence they are doomed to inseparable companionship. They own two farms, plentifully stocked with everything that pertains to Southern farTiers. Their farms join, and one of their wives live at each farm. They spend three days and a half at one farm, and the same time at the other, punctual to an hour. In each family there are seven or eight handsome children, to whom they are giv- ng a good education. They are very in dustrious, and do a good portion of the labor on their farms. They are punctual, honest men themselves, they have no use for a man that forfeits their confidence, either bv evasion or dishonesty. When they settled in North Carolina, they petitioned the Legislature that they might adopt the name of "Bunker," after a special friend of theirs, which was granted. They were Chang and Eng before, they are now Chang Bunker and Eng Bunker. They are pretty strong partisans, and al most invariably vote the Whig ticket." A Drowst Damsel. The Rockville (Tnd.) Republican tells the most extra ordinary robbery story that we have ever heard. It says that some fellow entered the house of Mr Jesse Wright, of Parke county, and robbed the room of Mr Wright's daughter, who was sleeping in her bed. After plundering as much as he could, he proceeded very coolly to steal the ear rings out of the ears of the drowsy damsel. Then he pulled the rings off- her fingers, and thinking still that he hadn't made the robbery complete, he cut all the hair off one side of her head! And he accomplished it all without waking the girl. WHAT IS THE INDIAN MUTINY ? The following editorial article from the London Daily News gives the most compre hensive view of the Bengal mutiny that we have any where met with : "Have our readers attempted to form to themselves any thing like an exact notion of what is implied by the words "mutiny of the Bengal army ?" We fear not ; and we will try to help them to form one. British India has a superficial extent of upwards of 700,000 square miles, with a population of about 130,000,000. The a a native States adjoining to or surrounded by the British territory may have a super ficial extent of nearly 800,000 square miles. with a population which falls little short of 200,000,000. With the exception of Bur mah and Nepaul and one or two petty gov ernments all these States have entered into treaties with the British Government, by which they have renounced the right of self-defence and the right of maintaining diplomatic relations with each other. But none of them are forbidden and some of them are required to maintain each a separ ate military force. The aggregate military forces of the native princes are little short of 400,000 men an amount exceeding bj about 100,000 the numerical strength of the Anglo Indian army. Of the 700,000 square miles which we have taken as the approximative superficial extent of British India, about 136,000 are included in the Presidency of Madras and 120,000 in the Presidency of Bombay ; the remaining 444,000 are subject, either medi ately or immediately, to the Presidency of Bengal. And this immense extent of coun try is inhabited by a population amounting to nearly 80,000,000. Of this territory our two most recent ac quisitions the Punjaub and the kingdom of Oude form part. A number of small native States are enclaves within it. Nepaul adjoins its northern and Burmah its south ern frontier. The protected native States of Scindiah and Holker are contiguous to its southern frontier. Benares, the great central of Brahminical organization and in fluence, is situated iu nearly the oentre of this territory, which contains also Luck now and Delhi, which, with Hyderabad in the Deccan, may now be considered as forming the three principal centres of Mahommetau influence and agitation. Now, throughout this immense territory almost every regiment of the Bengal army either is in open mutiny or viewed with suspicion. Some regiments have been dis banded ; some have been disarmed. The soldiers of the disbanded regiments have returned mutinous and malcontent to their homes, or are straggling in bands through out the country. The soldiers of the disarmed regiments are affronted and irritated; some have deserted, others remain moodily at their stations. Though several regiments remain apparently faithful, it must be kept in mind that among the muti neers are the men of several regiments which for a time made most specious dem onstrations of loyalty. At Delhi and several other places the mutineers are waging open war agaiust the Anglo-Indian Government. We hear it repeated on all sides that the insurrection is confined exclusively to the army. Let us not deceive ourselves by phrases. The army in India is not merely a body organized for defence against foreign aggression. It is the main, almost the sole instrument of internal civil government. Almost all the duties of a police such as the suppression of robbers and the execution of the decrees of the courts of justice devolve upon the soldiery. When treasure is moved from one part of the country to another, it is under escort of soldiers ; when the civil officers travel it is with a military guard. When we say that the Bengal army is nearly, if not entirely dissolved, we say that the instrumentality by which the civil Government carries out its behests is destroyed; that all civil authority through out the Bengal presidency and its depen dencies is paralyzed. This is not all. The Bengal army, with the exception of a few regiments of Ghoorkas and Silihs, is recruited from the Hindoo and Mussulman population. The Mussulmans muster strongest w the cavalry, the Hindoos in the infantry. The Hindoos are almost exclusively Rajpoots or Brahmins. A large proportion both of the Mussulmans and Hindoos have been recruited in Oude, the Sovereign of which has recently been de posed. The native soldiers are almost the only class of natives who are animated by a sense of political importance. Even the Sepoys of the foot regiments are placed, by their moderate pay, in a state of affluence as compared with the great mass of the village population. The soldiers of the irregular corps may be regarded almost as a kind of miuor gentry. Now, these men have annual furloughs of considerable length, during which they visit their re spective homes and play the part of men of importance among the villagers. There are, also, scattered throughout the country, old soldiers living in retirement. We know from recent events, that, by means of letters and messengers, the soldiers of the different regiments keep up an active cor respondence with each other; is it not possible that they may also keep up a cor respondence with non-military friends ? The European population in India is a small fraction. Few European possess more than an imperfect conversational acquaintance with the native languages. Difference of social habits and modes of thought precludes in the rule habits of intimacy between Europeans and natives. The natives soldier is identified with the native population, while his English masters are so many alien disjecta membra tossed helplessly on its tumultuous waves. It is obvious from these considerations that the mutiny in the Bengal army has a social and civil import far beyond what could possibly attach to the mutiny of an English army at home. Let us ask our selves, moreover, while we speak of disaf fection as confined to the ranks of the native army, who vouches for the loyalty of the euuumerable native officials attached to the various administrations and courts of justice in the Mofussil ? The mutiny in the army has so engrossed the attention of all Europeans in India that no one has thought it worth his while to send us word how the native civil servants are deporting them selves at the present crisis. It is not "Young Bengal" that wo are apprehensive of. The declaimers in that native press whose ferosity has frightened the Legisla tive Council of India into its silly, offensive, and useless press licensing act. are a small knot of young men in whom a half-Europe- an education nas excited a ianiasucui administration of old Indian usages, akin to the mediaeval follies of English Puseyites and Scotch Celtic societies. They have no influence over the general feeling of India. The great bulk of the natives listen to them as Dame Glendenning did to Sir Pierce Shafton. But the native lawyers and in terpreters and tax-gatherers are a very different a more practical, influential, and unscrupulous class of men. Our object in these remarks is to point out how all civil authority may be, and most likely has been, paralyzed by the military mutiny in Bengal." THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. By One who knew It. The American Medical Gazette for June gives a remarkably interesting letter from an American Medical student at Paris. This writer says that he once heard Mag endie, the celebrated French physician and physiologist, open a lecture somewhat in the following words: Gentlemen: Medicine is a great humbug. I know it is called a science science, in deed ! It is nothing like a science. Doc tors are mere impirics, when they are not charlatans. Who knows any tiling in the world about medicine ? Gentlemen, you have done me the honor to come here to attend my lectures, and I must tell you frankly now in the beginning, I know noth ing in the world about medicine, and I don't know anybody who does know anything about it. Don't think for a moment that I have not read the bills advertising the course of lectures at the Medical School; I know that this man teaches anatomy, that man teaches pathology, another man physi ology, such a one therapeutics, such anoth er meteria medica Eh lien ! et apres ? What's known about all that ? Why, gentlemen, at the school of Mont pelier (God knows it was famous enough in its day !) they discarded the study of anatomy, and taught nothing but the dis pensary; and the doctors educated there knew just as much and were quite as suc cessful as any others. I repeat it, nobody knows anything about medicine. True enough we are gathering facts every day. We can produce typhus fever, for example, by injecting a certain substance into the veins of a dog that's something; we can alleviate diabetes, and, I see distinctly, we are fast approaching the day when phthisis can be cured as easily as any disease. We are collecting facts in the right spirit and I dare say that in a century or so the accumulation of facts may enable our suc cessors to form a medical science; but I repeat to you. there is no such thing now as a medical science. Who can tell how to cure the headache ? or the gout ? or dis ease of the heart ? Nobody. Oh ! you tell me doctors cure people. I grant you peo ple are cured. But how are they cured ? Gentlemen, nature does a great deal. Im agination does a great deal. Doctors do devilish little when they don't do harm. Let me tell you, gentlemen, what I did when I was head physician at Hotel Dieu. Some three or four thousand pa tients passed through my hands every year. I divided the patients into two classes; with one, I followed the dispensary, and gave them the usual medicines without having the least idea why or wherefore; to the other, I gave bread pills and colored water, without, of course, letting them know anything about it od occasion ally, gentlemen, I would create a third divi sion, to whom I gave nothing whatever. These last wooild fret a good deal, they would feel they were neglected, (sick peo ple always feel they are neglected, unless they mo well drugged les imbeciles !) and tney would irritate themselves until they got really sick, but nature invariably came to the rescue, and all the persons in the third class got well. There was a little mortality among those who received but bread pills and colored water, and the mor tality was great -st among those who were carefully drugged according to the dispen sary. This is pretty plain speaking for a doctor. A CHAPTER ON MATRIMONY A young lady out West, in a communica tion to the Sandusky Register upon the subject of matrimony, says : "It js a mournful fmct that this world is full of young men who want to marry, but dai not. Deny this, as rome will, it is nevertheless true, as w can very easily show. In this town, for instance, there are some thirty or forty young men, well-to-do in the way of business and suluries, aud yet refuse to take, the step which they all want to take, but do not. Why ? The large majority of them have salaries rang ing from five hundred to seven hundred dollars a year. Now the first question to be asked by any sane mau, is, can I pro perly support a wife, if I take one T Then he counts the cost of living as the woman of his preference would wish, and lo ! he finds to his amazement, that his income is vastly too small to support even a modest modern establishment; aud, somewhat mad dened by the reflection, he plunges into labor and courts business with an assiduity that takes away his health eventually, in hopes of attuining an income that shall enable him to marry, and have a home of his own. And this is the secret of the hard, unending toil of the young men of to day, who are fust approaching thirty years of age this is the reason of so many disap pointed men and waiting women, deny or hide it as you may. "But, says some good wman, you do us injustice ; for any woman who truly loves a man will adopt herself to his circumstances with the greatest pleasure. But what man of any sensitiveness, or high sense of honor, would take a woman from easy circum stances, and a pleasant and well furnished home, to adorn his four little rooms, and to do his house-work, as the first principles of economy would demand of him ? Few will do it ; for, though the woman signifies her willingness to take up with suoh ex perience, we are all such creatures of circumstances, that there would be com plaining on her part, eventually, aud sickness from over-exertion, unhappiness from many cares ull of which would render marriage anything else than pleasant. And so the young man very wisely think pre ferring a few years of single loneliness, in order to obtain money enough to support a modest house of between twelve and fifteen hundred dollars per year expense, rather than to place a modestly educated woman tutu the house of six hundred a year, where she must do her own house-work. "Now, what is the remedy ? Plainly that women must fit themselves to be such wives as the young men must have. Else the young men must fit themselves to be such husbands as women want, and .spend the very choicest years of their life in the dismal drudgery of a ceaseless toil, break ing down health, happiness, energy, only to give themselves up to marriage when the !.- of their manhood is gone. The women must choose for themselves which it shall be, for the matter is solely in their hands. Let mothers say to their daughters, Put on that calico gown ; take charge of this house hold and fit yourself to become a wife find mother. Let the young women cheerfully consent to such service ; and instead of lavishing all thought, and time, and money upon the adoenmsnt of the body, seek to accustom the hands to proper industry, and to school the mind to proper tastes. Then there will be no longer complaint that young men 'can't afford to marry,' and we shall have beautiful, modest houses all around us, and women will have loving husbands, and all life, once more, have something of the truthfulness and virtue which it had in the days of our blessed fathers and mothers, when it was woman's ambition to become the head of the house, and the mother of noble children." Men Milliners. They have men milli ners in Germany. A correspondent of the New York Times, in writing from Frank fort, says: In America we have never seen men mantua-makers and milliners, but in Germany they ars as common as men tailors, and if a man-tailor is the ninth part of a man, re have wondered what part must be a man milliner. One day, where we were sitting, a man came in with a dress, pasted, ready to try on. Well, we confess, we looked with all our eyes, what would be done; but there w? no hesita tion the lady took the robe to her room, and put it ou, returning in full dress, $ans sleeves. The mum examined it, to see where it needed altering took it in on the shoul ders, pinched up the biasses, and laid the plaits, evidently u.-ed to his business, and evidently, as the lady said he was, an excellent dress-maker, and also that dresse made by men kept there place better, and lasted longer than those made by women. To those afflicted with dropsy, here is a remedy that will probably do them sotno good. It is going the rounds of the papers, and we give it for what it is worth: Lemon Juice in Dropsy. Lemons are recommended for dropsy in a Huanian medical journal, and are said to be beneficial in the most hopeless cases. The first day one lemon was given, after taking the peel off', and cutting into small pieces, in sugar, the two following days three were given, and afterwards eighteen every day. For nourishment meat was given. In every ca-'-e the water came off the seventh day.
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Sept. 8, 1857, edition 1
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