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jfwt? Norii-Caroiina State Gazette,
No. i.
BALEIGH, (N.'C.) FBIDAY, APRIL Z6, 1810.
rUBLIHD WtBKLY,
BV THOMAS HENDERSON, JTJN.
yjnnjnin. tbre doRan frr annum tot no paper iD
U aort wit bowl at leaat half a year ia paid in aArncrt
id no paper diacooUnM(f b at Um optkw of tb Edi
tor, nnira til arrurafea are pki
Vrtiawwi, ot ooeiadinr ' linea, uuerted tbre
Him for l, aad.35 cent for tack continuance.
MISCELLANY.
Qnreraethe early inscriptions written on 'he
Gratpageof our intellect and ruemorv. fieri
we must be mindful that monarch and judge art
but fallible mortal, and the mercy-seat of royalty
and the sanctuary of justice have been poflthfd
bj a Tresiliaj), a Scraf gt,S4d a Jefleriea.
The bench frowned at tbje words, bat, the ntr
pia juror inus proceeaea : " Nay my lord, I irm A
poor man, but t am a freedom subject of theling
dom of Ireland -4 member of the constitution
nay, I am now higher, for I am the representative
thereof. I therfoce claim for myself and fellow
juror, the liberty of speech, and if I am refused
it here, I shall assume it before the people at the
door of this court-home, nd tell them why I de
liver my mind there-instead of in. tU jlace, ,
The bench here resumed iU digu-ed cotnpl
ceaey, and the honest orator continued his ad
dress. ? I say, mv lord, that we have notkinz to
MR. BAYARD.
.Mr. Reynolds of Tennessee, in the debate on
he Direct Tax, Speaking of the Treaty of .peace
id addressing himself to Mr. King of Alasaachu
etts, said t
" 1 nimbly conceive) that the honorable gentle.
iaa has no just ground of complaint against the da with your private character ; we know you
oromissioner ior me treaty iney cna mane. in nere only in that oljmlt, and as such we would
he contraryt he and hi People owe them a debt t respect you you know nothing of us but as a
f eternal gratitude ! the chief of w hom (Mr Bay- . jury, and in that station we look to you for rccip
rd) I regret is no more! I was delighted the ' rocal respect, because we know no man, however
ther day Jo hear the gent, from Virginia (Mr. ; high his titles or his rank, in whom the law or the
Randolph) pronounce such an eloquent eulogium constitution would warrant an unprovoked insult
a the memory of that greatntan. Sir, it does toward the tribuual in which they have vested
6nor to his heart, to speak in such terms of his , the dearest and most valuable pro ileges.they pos
Jd and powerful antagonist, with whom he had sess. I before said,my Io;l, that we are met
) wield tne sword of argument so often in this, here not individually, tiordj we presume pre
ouse. That great man, sir, was the pride and eminence : but in the sacred cliaracter.of a iurv.
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oem times this excise does not apply, lor since
the year 1758, they have retained in England
myn an average of once in only aboat aix years,
aad in this country since the year 1757 the ave
rage has be tu once in only about every seven
years. It prevailed in Amonca in the years
17J7, '61, '7. '81, 89, '90, 1807. '16, so that in
this ratio it out return under the Observation of
j One man. daring an ordinary lifetime, six or eiht
woes, wmcn anoros wu ioo ample an opportunity
to industry and attentive remark to make accu
rate observations and useful distinctions.
Dr. ilpah remarks that "the influenza passes
trith the utmost rapidity through a country, and
a Ted ie greatest number of people, in a given
time, of any disease in the world." ia which he
ft cofxj&ojrated. by. many otiier writers. But oar
late epidemic was peculiarly alow fdita progress
in pervading the country. In its march from
the northward to the southward its progress ap
pears to have leen only from about one hnrulred
to two hundred and fifty miles per annum. In
the winter of 1813 it was in Itiiladelphia ; in tie
oast of the American name at home and abroad,
Ithough he was a federalist And as long Is
He eloquent, patriotic and accomplished states
m is estimated among mankind, his name will
e cherished and respected by the latest genera
on of his countrymen. Sir, I w ill not bay with
le honorable gentleman from Virginia (Mr.
fcndolpli that he would give all tlie glor-y acijiifr
1 in the 'late war to restore the life of the cele--atad
and ranch lamented Davies, of Kentuckv,
it this I will say, that to have met with the late
id much esteemed commissioner in this place
.w, to have an opportunity of returning to him
j sincere acknowledgments for his friendship
me, certain I am that it would have been the
eatest gratification I ever can enjoy on this
le of the grave. I beg pardon, sir, for this di
ession, I should not have introduced the topic,
wever grateful to my feelings, had not the ex
iple of the honorable gentleman from Virginia
Ir. Randolph) presented the opportunity.
THE IRISH JURYMAN.
A Judge on the northwest circuit in Ireland,
jae to the trial of a cause in which much of the
cal consequence of certain gentlemen in, the
ighbourhood was concerned. It was the case
"a landlord's prosecution against a poor man,
tenant, for assault and battery, committed on
t pirson of the prosecutor by tne defendant, in
e defence of nis only child, an innocent and
intifal girl, from ravishment.- Not only the
nch, but the whole bar dined with the prosecu
's farther the day before the trial ; and some
them praise the venison and the claret even to
is day.
When this poor man was brought into court,
d put to the bar, the prosecutor appeared, and
we most manfully to every tittle m the indict
tnt. He was cross-examined by the jurors,
to were honest tradesmen and reputable far
ers. The poor man had no lawyers to tell his
ory ; he pleaded his own cause and he plea
sd,notto the fancy, but to the judgment and
e heart. The Jury found him JVot Guilty.
Th court tvas enraged ; but the auditors glad
wed to exultation, uttered a shout of applause,
he judge told the jury, they must go back to
e jury room and re-consider "the master ; adding
s was astonished they 6hould return so infamous
verdict. The jury bowed, went back, and in a
uarter of an hour returned, when the foreman, a
snerable old man, thus addressed the bench:
Mylofd in compliance M-ith your desire, we went
ick to our jury -room, but as we there found no
iason to alter our opinion on our verdict, we re
irn it to you in the words as before A'oi Guil-t-
Reheard your lordship's language of reproof,
ut we do not acoept it as truly or warrantably
Paying to us. It is true my lord, that individ
Concerned, in our private capacities, we
he poor insignificant men : therefore, in that
ght, claimnothing out of this box above the
ammon regards of our humble but honest sta
ons; but, my lord, assembled here as a jury,
'ecannot be insensible to the great constitution-JOrtance-of.
the .department we now fill.
Vefeel, my lord, that, we are appointed, as you
re by the law and the constitution. Not only
9 an impartial tribunal to judge between the king
n his subjects, the offended and the offender,
thatwe ctin a situation of still greater confi
c for we form, as a jury, the barrier of the
tople against the possible influence, prejudice,
ion, or corruption of the bench. To you , my
meeting you without these walls, I, for my
part, might possibly measure my respect by
private virtues j in this place your private
wractcr is invisible ; it is veiled in your official
.xlri y01 conduct in that only we can look
' wnot'Hn this business presume to offer
e beach the smallest degree of Sisrespect, much
a? in8ult $ wc 8aj " the respect whichone
inunaiiBhmild pay to another, for the common
.l00' .This jury,-my lord, did not ab
wethatbench of partiality, prejudice, iiifa
M decision, nor .yet of influence, corruption,
prejsi0 jr, sr tyranny no.we 4ooked to it as
!!?vhecat royalty-a3 M sanctiikry Of
we siiould be w anting in reverence to tlie consti
tution itself, if w e did not look for'the respect of
every man who regards it. We 9et here, ray-lord,
sworn to give a verdict according to our con
sciences and the best of our judgments, on the
evidence before us. We have, in onr own minds,
acquitted our duties as honest men. If. we have
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suppuration. In two of thete cases U fell poi , '
the arais, and the inflammations Hid r coons 006- '
wellin extended from the fingers to the sfwfaU
ders. , The aupparations took place around the)
elbow in both cases, forminr extensive alquseS "i.
from which the discharge kepi up for many week'.
These are both recovering, but threaten an anebfi
losis. The other case fell apoDthe leg, iflppA
rated copiously and it doin? well.- v 1
I was informed by the physician of thia. tUc4
of three cases in which hemorrhage from ond r
or both ears occurred, in which the ptienta-iott
from ten to sixteen ounces of blood. One of thesA
case recovered. T.j'ee or four cases ocrnrml .
in which the eruption of a rash on the d or Ll -
day, put aa end to the disease j and in dne it ap-
peared as late aa the 4th or 3th week, i n coma nc :
tion with the other uwalayrmitolntatterldlnrJie ' "
crisit , and aeemcd to be beneficial. , .'
Two pneumonic cases occurred i a which ni
common copious bronchial or pulmonary secre
tions took place at a late state of the" disease. &.
after tlie conditions of the patients had riveti -
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winter of 1815 ithad advanced as far southward- j hopes for several days of convalescence. .Thia
iy as Salisbury, N. C. and in this winter it has j secretion occurred suddenly and the matter of it
visited most parts of South-Carolina. Since its was expectorated by aa exhausting paroxysm of . .
invasion of this Stat, its progress from place to coughing. The quantity expectorated at one time '
place has been equally peculiar appearing in 1 was from about four ounces to two ndunda.tnftor"
spots or neighborhoods only thirty or forty miles space of from fifteen minutes to two hours. 1 Id -distant
from each other, at periods of four, five, I one of these cases it recurred DeriodicalU wtth -
six or eight weeks apart. It was also peculiarly nice precision, at the same hour and almost at the
capricious in the circnmscriled locality of its pre
valence, attackinj one particular community.
raging for oight or ten weeks, and then passing
over a large intermediate tract of country and
seizing on another circumscribed community. In
this way it has been meandering through the
State over since early in last November, and at
erred, we are answerable, not to your lordship, this time it is still raging in some neighborhoods
ni uiv uvnc.'i, nor 10 i'ie Kinwno niaceu vou oaiav.ein. 10 uiacra wnere 11 nrevaiiea eariv in tne
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uere,outioanigner power theeing of kings.7'
The bench was dumb, the bar was silent. Tlje
poor man was discharged.
Elastic JtarbU of Massachusetts. Sometime
ago, Dr. Mitchell exhibited to the New-York Phi
losophical Society a specimen of American Elas
tic Marble measuring four feet in lengthy three
inches in breadth, and one inch in thickness. The
slab was of snow whiteness, of a grained structure,
and of a remarkahle flexibilit y. He had received
it from Messrs. Norris and laic,.who got it from
the quarry in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. . Since
the receipt of this extraordinary sample,' another
one, of a far more considerable size has been pro
cured by Mr. Meyher. from Stockbridfiroi. This
he in preparing rbr a place In Dr. Mitchell's
cabinet of mineralosv. The dimensions of this
stone are as follow : breadth 1 foot and ten inches,
length 5 feet, and thickness two inches; Pinking
a mass of two thousand six hundred and fortv
cuhick inches of elastic marble.
This slab when ghaken undulates sensibly back;
wards & forwards ; when supported at the two ex
tremities the middle forms a curve of about two
inches from a horizontal line: and when turned
over recovers itself, and inclines as much the
other way. It has many other curious vroper
nerties. The substance under consideration has
been already described by Mr. Meade, in a me
moir printed in the American Mineralosrical Jour
nal 5 and New-Yrork now probablv contains the
largest piece that the world can produce.
MEDICAL,
FROM THE COLUMBIA TELE8COPE.
Peculiarities and Anomalies of the late Epidemic.
This subject would appear at first view to he
more curious than usefui; but when it is consi
dered how far the peculiarities and anomalies
concomitant on a disease may tend to establish
the identity of its character, it will he found not
to be destitute of utilitv. It may also be of im
portance to the practitioner upon any new recur
rence of the disease, to be apprised of its anoma
lies and the consequences to which they lead,
and thereby saved from those perplexing embar
rassments which new and singular appearances
sometimes impose upon him.
It has been the practice of medical writers to
denominate all catarrhs which have prevailed
epidemically by one common appellation imply
ing an identity of character. " From Sydenham
upwards to Hippocrates it was known and is
mentioned by the name of catarhalis fehris epi
demica. Since Sydenham's time it has been va
riously named, but is now generally known by
the name of influenza." How far this may be
correct and proper requires investigation. In
examining the history of epidemic catarrhs we
find a very great diversity both in the symptoms
and in the methods of cure; scarcely any two of
them ih immediate succession presenting a same
ne of character. If nosological terms are to be
continued in use, it is important that they should
be applied with the utmost discrimination and
strictest precision; otherwise unwary practition
ers and others, seeing a method of treatment ere
scribed for a disease under the usual name by which
it is known, will take it for their guide, right or
wrong, and perhaps not discover their error until
after the loss of several valuable lives. A great
source of this want of precision in former times
was doubtless theneldom recurrence of these epi
demics, as according to Dr. Eotherjrijl they had
appeared at uncertain intervals in England dur
ing the two hundred and fifty years last prccei-
winter, and from which it had long since passed
oa.
It has been peculiar in raging w ,w the greatest
severity in the interior of the country, whilst the
sea coast has been exempted or surferd compara
tively but little. And yet in the, interior of the
state, the most swampy situakjs, margins of
rivers and places Wst subject to the endemial
autumnal bilious fevers, have auRered most se
verely from the epidemic.
It was likewise peculiar in its manifest predi
lection for male Subjects in preference to females.
The proportion of females, attacked did not per
haps exceed one tenth or one fifteenth part; but
some few who were attacked seemed to have the
disease equally as yjdlentas the males. Children
under lour or fire years of age were remarkably ;
eterapted, and amongst children above that age
ine males most generally suffered. It was pot
peculiarly fatal to the aged, nor to such as had a
prior tendency to pulmonic affections, but on the
contrary some very old people recovered who had
the disease severely; and, indeed, it fell with
its greatest severity and mortality on the robust,
and on such as were in the prime of life. Corpu
ient persons appeared to eujoy an exemption;
and it was thought that Europeans and the natives
of the Kastern States were nluch more exempted
than the natives of more southern latitudes. Fe
males ia a state of pregnancy were not more lia
ble to abortions in this disease than in others of
equal violence, which unhappily is not the case
in epidemical catarrhs generally. To drunkards,
as might have been expected," it was generally
fatal.
This disease was peculiar in its universal ten
dency to determine on the chest in the form of
pneumonia. For although a small proportion of
cases determined to the head, blood-vessels only,
or throat, yet the tendency to the chest was so ge
neral as almost to warrant the denomination of
an epidemic pleurisy or peripneumony rather than
that of influenza. It may also be remarked that
relapses were more seldom than in ordinary in
fluenzas. It was peculiarly under the influence
of temperature and humidity. Upon the recur
rence of cold damp weather, of which we have
had an unusual share this winter, the cases im
mediately multiplied, and those who had been
preiously ill never failed to become worse. It
was perhaps from this circumstance that it prov
ed in many cases peculiarly fatal to negroes, as
thf.y were more exposed to the vicissitudes of the i
w eather, and their lodgings generally cold and
uncomfortable. Exposure to the external atmos
phere and cold, seemed constantly to predispose j
to tlie disease, and hence, perhaps, is the reason 1
why females, children and corpulent people were
more exempted from it than others, as corpulence
serves as a defence against the influence of cold.
In two anomalous cases in this town the local;
determination to the brain was so sudden and
violent in two robust men as to occasion convul
sions, without any premonitary symptoms.
Both these cases proved fatal, one within 48
hours and the other within a few days. In a lad
of '4 or 15 years of age, the disease was ushered
in by a sudden attack of stupor. He was travel
ling on the road in company with some others and
complained of nothing before he fell down in a
state of insensibility w This case recovered. A
pneumonic case occurred, of a typhus nature, ac
companied with a cough in every respect resem
bling the hooping-cough, except that the matter
of expectoration was uncommonly copious and
purulent from the beginning. This is a recent
case, and after a tedious illness seems likely to
recover. In three pneumonic cases towards the
period of the crisis the disease precipitated itself
ame minute in every twenty-four hours, for four
or five times.
The matter of this secretion had an intermedi v
ate appearance between pus and mucus, of a white
colour with a taste not easily described, but mori ;
nearly resembling the taste of a raw egg thananT
thing else. This secretion was followed by en-i -dent
and immediate relief to the chestt The re-
piration became more free, the lungs more easily; .
expanded, the remaining pains and uneasiness ai ;
bout the chest were mitigated, and the convalesi
cence was visibly more rapid. '
Th ese discharges gave an impression that they
proceeded from the rupture ofvomier orabscegaes ,
which had formed in the lungs. But, that this o
pinion was erroneous is obtiousfrom the follow
ing circumstances, Tlie matter was obviousij.'
different from the matter of common abscesses as
an experienced eye would readily perceive: If
however, it had been real pus yet this alonfe
would fall very far short orbeing prdof that it proi , x
ceded from an aWpaa fnr it ;a . r. 1 J
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established fhatpas may be, and very often il 3
foYmed from inflamed secreting surfaces, and th
secreting surfaces of the bronchia most especially
ar liabUtotakoottthiiaMdof aoctiotfJh
expectoration of hisniatter was raoi cover reiu".ar
jiiciiuuii.4i .ui.er certain intervals, it eontiD
ued at each period about the same length of time
and then gradually but rather abruptly ceaseds
after which not a single particle ofit could be
expectorated by any effort of Coughing, either
spontaneous or intentional, until the next reu
lar period of its recurrence. Now it is obvioua
that if this matter had proceded from a ruptured
abscess, however rapid and copious the first dis
charge migltt have been, yet a supply of more or
less matter must have been constantly formed iq
it until the abscess was healed ; and must necea
sarily have been brought up, from time to tim'
during the intervals, by cdughing. To suppose
the contrary we must believe each discharge &
have been the consequence of the rupture of a dfti
tmct abscess and tlie more especially as eachsuci
ceeding discharge and even the last was, .equally
as copious as the first; and then we must admit '
the preposterous conclusion that each abscess was
instantly healed upon being emptied.. A concluV
sion, unfortunately for the subjects of pulmonary 1 '
abscesses, contrary to all experience; v
Upon the whole I conclude that these1 dischafr"
ges were the effect of bronchial and fpulmonar
secretion; and that it was a mode of evacuation
attending the protracted crisis of the disease by
which the Iunga were unloaded of infractions &
possibly the whole sjstem relieved of offending
matter; for it ought to be remft: ked that botK
these cases had long passed the usual period of '
termination of the disease without the usual symp
toms of expectoration, &c. attending the cjrjsuL v -
In very many pneumonic cases a imn remain "
Cd on the seat of the inflamatiou during th
whole time of convalescence. This pain from th
circumstances of its being so suddenly variablei x
sometimes better add sometimes worse in thft
course of a few minutes, and seldom giving . 'any
uneasiness except by an expansion of the . tndraxt '
or some exertion of the miMrls )aii v j.
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naa ...us., p. uuamji rueumaue nature, in one i 5
case they seemed to occupy every intercostal mni; i ,
cle, giving considerable pain ipon everf expih--
sion of the chest, as by deep inspirations, &$! T biitf I ' 1
occasioning little or none of uneasine"ss trGea' f t'
these muscles were relaxed or only in their Urdi- f 1 1
nary state of exertion. Although these linf M !J
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yet there was an evident
them and the state of the lungs, in so much that-'
a few coughs and even small expectorations wbuli "
occasion a mitigation of them for some time, ' i ,
I have given the principal peculiarities ,
anojnaheatliat have attracted my attention and V
beg leave to close tliis communication witha nc'
tice of some popular notions with egard t the -prevention
of this formidable disease. t anTk.
informed that the inhabitants of Villiamsborgls
district where it has Tliadn lrNn virile. U.i:...v'
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up jn the extremities, producing an alaruiine state
- V?rSW still, rjy lord, vr$ Cffnttbt Jldt I ing the year 64, on an average of only once m ot pheraonic inflammation, which germinated i
Wjwad;tlfe;irows of our sehobbobksy 1 thirty one yeuis: bHtunfartunatelr forwsin ino-3 ?hecoa8titutoaal disesao by establishing conious '
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that the progress of tne disease has been completed
ly stopped by. burning their woods, and it is said ,
that several circumstances aftW rm.awl.mKU
circumstances afford-mffMiWnkU
grounds for the opvoj. Lam alao informed (hat .
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