The Homestead journal, and village register. (Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio), 1847-08-18

              AND VILLAGE REGISTER. J. I). COPK, EDITOR. A FAMILY NEWSPAPER ? Uevntrd to tlir Advocacy of Mail's Natural Right to the Soil, ? to thr Abolishment of ILL Slavery, ? Morality, News, General Inielliience, Literature. Srienee, Agriculture, ? Temperance, Health, fcc., \c. SALEM, COLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO, AUGUST (gTil MONTU,) 18, 1847. Old and i Whole No. ok Register ? New Series: ( New Series ? \'ol. 1. ? No. O. THE nonesTEAD Joun iL, AND V1LLAGK REG18TKR, Is published every Wednesday (4th day,) morning by A A II 0 \' ]l I N C II SI 1 \ , ON THE FOLLOWING TERMS, TO WIT! One Dollar and Fifty Cents for a single copy one year. Two Dollars if payment is delayed for six months. (&~TEN DOLLARS for Clubs of ten or more. No paper discontinued until nil arrearages lire paid except at the option of the publisher, and at even year or hall" year. ((^"Letters containing subscriptions for the paper, should be addressed to the publisher. Communications intended for publication should be addressed to the Editor. 0^7"AI1 kinds of in'-rchantahle produce la ken in paymeui, it delivered within the year. A lverti?emcnts inserted at the following rates : 1 squares insertions, $1 00 Each subsequent insertion, 35 I square one year, 8 00 t do do do 10 00 I column do 15 00 1 do do 25 00 Advertisements should he marked the number of times they are designed to be inserted, ami those not marked will he continued until ordered out. 33015 <rui* From l he Pittsburgh I'ost. THE IIEIiGAR GIRL. [She was picking up grains of cofT<e, old and every thing which could be of use: and had a fine, plain gold ring upon her finger. I asked her why she did not Fell the ring, and thus procure additional comfi >rta ? "Oil sir," said she, "do not wound my leeluigs by talking about gelling it? let nie beg my bread, or gather shreds ; but I must keep the last gift of my poor departed mother." [New York Globe. Yes, ftrirken one, keep, keep that ring ; Cherish it as a holy thing; Thou ne'er on earth, inavst fi id another To love ihee as did love Ihy mother. I'd reserve it thine, in toil and care ? Though thou mayst much of anguish bear: For while such memory clings to thee Thou canst not guilty, wretched be. Though penury assail the now ? Though grief may cloud thy gentle brow ? Let nought of earth the mem'ry smother (*t her thy dear departed mother. For holy thoughts of her will save Thy fcoul from sin; and help thee brave The storms of sorrow, pain, and strife, That darken, oft, poor human life. And though stern want should still assail, Oh ! let not that lov'd mem'ry fail : ? Her spirit will liovtr near, Thy truating loneliness to cheer. Be thine the strong, abiding hope, That lifts the stricken spirit up : Be thine the resolution strong T' abstain from sin, from shame, from wrong. And when Ihy course on earth shall end, Again thou'ltineet that truest friend, Where lov'd ones there are none to sever; Where will l>e lo?e and joy forever. From the Pictorial Messenger. THE CIERKS'S LAMENT. Respectfully dedicated to Dr. W.R. W. BT OLIVER OAKWOOD. >'m sitting at my desk, Doctor, Where oft I've sat before, Around me lay unnumbered books, Whose pages I con o'^r. The times and people change each dsy, As doubtless you can see; I wish, for gracious sake, Doctor, Therc'e be ? change in me ! It is the lot of some, Doctor, To ne'er do aught but write. And copy figures, add up lines, From early morn till night. 'Tiissid that authors ''coin their brains," To get their daily food; I think that beingr "scribe," Doctor, Isjust|about as good. The pleasant Summer is here, .Doctor, (At least^they tell me so,) ] havo not time to look and sse Whether 'tis true or no. For if I'd take a walk, (not ride,) 1 should look bo t>nlPH|ue, To be seen any where. Doctor, Save at th la dear old desk! Ithiuk I'll take todrugs, Doctor, And wait upon the sick, To feel the puis* ? guess I con M tell Whether 'twas slow or quick ! Then sit beside the bed awhile, Look grave, with eyes cast down; I'm used to that, for keeping books Would make ail angle trown. I'll "credit" this old enrlli, Doctor, With all the good I've bad; While oil the 'debit side' I'll put The lurge amount of bad. And when I have it 'posted up,' A 'balance' 1 will make, To see what good be left, Doctor, Of which I may partake. Ilut then again I think, D>ctor, That things could be much worse, For t might not have time enough, My troubles to rehearse. So, therefore, with a thankful heart, I'll to my task again, To look on the brigtit side, Doctor, And never more complain* T1IK USE OF TOBACCO. The following article was published awhile since in the Massachusetts Cataract, a valuable Temperance paper. As people bccome more temperate in the use of spirits, they generally go to excess in tobacco, tea coffee, or some other stimulant or narcotic. Hence the necessity of a more thorough reform. "The habit of smoking, snuffing, and shewing this weed is not so lamentable in its consequences as rum-drinking, but ihen it is a matter of intemperance ? expensive ? disgusting ? and a great cause jf rum-drinkinc. The least important item in the account is its expenae. Vet this is worthy of attention. In the year 1810, after thoringh investigation, it was ascertained that ! 11 the city of New York alone, there was consumed during that year $80,000 ivortli of cigars. The present consumpion in that city is not less than 8200,000 innualty. A very careful investigation las been made relative to the cost of this irticle to the whole nation, and it has ?ecn found to exceed 10.000,000 of dolars per annum. Afore than ten times as nuch as is paid to all the benevolent encrprises of the day together. How much suffering and poverty that $10,000,000 .vould relievo ? how much light and truth t might scatter. $10,000,000 wasted for ?igars ! and by a people continually com>laining of' Hard Times.' It is a dreadful filthy habit ? cither in ts chewing, smoking or snuffing. What in uncleanly nose is th ? snuff-takcr coninually poking in your face, ? and then, f you have seen a regular snuff-taker spit, you have looked upon a sight too filhy for decent eyes. Think ofthec/ieicing of this weed ? polluting the mouth a") ill that which no animal in creation, save the dirty goat, and the tobacco worm, ivill ever touch. The mouth was evilently made to keep clean, and fit to contain food during mastication : but the use jf tobacco makes it the very foulest spot beneath the sun. IIow is that poor man's stomach to be pitied, that is compelled to receive all its food from a vessel so unclean ! What a lip and chin the poor tobacco cliewer is obliged to carry about ivith him wherever ho may go ? always tesmeared with the boilings over of the filthy cauldron within. Who does not pity the tobacco chewer, the victim of a most debasing and tyrannical habit I The use of tobacco in any form is exceedingly injurious to the health. It is the opinion of the ablest physicians in the ' civilized world, that a more deadly poison j cannot be infused into the system. Its I terrific effects upon life have been shown ! iu hundreds of instances, by experiments | on various kinds of animals. A drop of the oil of tobacco, applied to the toungc of a cat or dog. causes immediate death. Dying at the hands of tobacco! ? Strange that men will take the same means to kill themselves, that they do to destroy the vermin on their flocks and herds. The prayer of the tobacco user seems to be, 'let mc die the death of lice and sheep ticks.' But, then, tobacco is used 'as a medicine.' The same blindness in our physicians, which once supposed ardent spirits necessary both as a preventive and restorative, led also to the use of tobacco. And what at first was used to allay the distress of toothache, became at length almost necessary to very existenco. The father used it to cure his teeth, and the sons to prevent theirs from aching, and thus they all agreed to eat that which would nauseate a well-bred dog. Others had 'watery stomachs.' They must use it to induce spitting, that the surplus fluid might be drained off through the mouth. 1 As philosophical as to turn a brook into ' your cellar to make a drain necessary. ? i This watery stomach malady, like some other troublesome diseases, generally'' went through the entire family. And ii ' spread from neighborhood to neighbor- j hood, until whole communities of men were converted into boiling springs, the water of which resembled the polluted fountains which supplied the sea of Sodom.The use of tobacco is n great cause of drunkenness. Its tendency upon the system is to produce a morbid thirst which simple water does not allay, and in time must be treated with some intoxicating drink. We know this from the fact that, go where we will, we shall almost invariably find tobacco in some form or other, ? generally in two forms ? the everlasting companion of the drunkard." ? Mas*. Cataract. From the Water-Cure Manual. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE DISCOVERIES OF PR1ESSNITZ. [All who have read the subject of water-cure, must have noticed th.it there were discrepancies in the accounts of the different authors concerning the discoveries of the immortal founder of the new system. Our friend, A. J. Colvin, Esq., of Albany, the able and talented District Attorney of that city, was nearly one year at Grafenberg, and being on very friendly and intimate terms with Priessnitz, he availed himself of the opportunity of writing down a full account of his discoveries and progress in his method of cure. Much credit is due Mr. Colvin, for the service he has so faithfully performed for hydropathy. Our stay was very short at Grafenberg, and alihough Priessnitz devoted to the answering of our inquiries ; more than we could have asked, yet we could i.ot, in that short time, converse , with him concerning the history of his discoveries and improvements, without too much encroaching upon other matters of more practical importance. We knew, moreover, that Mr. Colvin had already , obtained a correct account of these discoveries, anu mat tney would, througn ? him, come before the American people, i We feel under the greatest obligation to | that gentleman, and are certain, that the | facts and information he has furnished j will be duly appreciated by the friends of ] the system generally in this country. ( Concerning some apparent discrepan- | cy between Mr. Colvin and l)r. Smcthurst, and the authenticity of every part of his statement, Mr. C. writes as follows : " The 2d of October, 1342, may have been a day of 'great rejoicing at Grafen- t berg, being kept as the forty-third anni- i versaryofthe birth-day of Priessnitz.' ? < The reason of which probably was, be- ( cause the 2d fell upon a Sunday, which ( is always selected in Germany for such i purposes, if it fall within a day or two of 1 the true time. A look at the almanac j will determine how this is. I, too, was at j Grafenberg in Oct. 1 844, and the 3d was i kept as the anniversary, because the 4th ( was a Saint's day, and you know it won't , do to dance in Catholic countries on such j days ? and this was tho reason assigned ? to me for not keeping the anniversary on the 4th. " You may depend implicitly upon all the facts which I have furnished you ? they were obtained from the lips of Priessnitz himself. I wrote them down as he gave them to Capt. Moore, of the English army, a thorough German scholar, educated at one of the German Universities, and speaking the language just as well as his native tongue. To be certain that there were no mistakes, 1 read my notes to Mr. Niemann, Priesaniiz's interpreter, who, at my request and in my presence, asked Priessnitz if they were correct, and Priessnitz said they were, with few exceptions, which, of course, I corrected on the instant. To satisfy me of the injury made by the cart-wheel, in his side, Priessnitz unbuttoned his vest and shirt bosom, and placed my hand upon the spot. In regard to his ago I was very particular, I am not mistaken. " Being a lawyer myself, 1 was aware how likely one is to be deceived, unless he bo particular in his cross examination. I was particular, and I again repeat, that my statement may bo implicitly relied on."] Ai.banv, Feb. 1st, 1847. Dr. Shew : My Dear Sir, ? You apprise me of your safe return from Grafenborg, and your intention to publish another work on the Water-Cure. Anxious to accompany it with a history of the discoveries of Priessnitz, you ask me to furnish mine, which you are pleased to say, is probably more accurate than any or all else. I had intended to prepare my notes for publication, but the length of time which has now elapsed since they were made, will prevent, unless in the shape of ?' -ja -hed articles. I with pleasure, there1 'Co, extract what you desire, to print or L-jru, as you may prefer. I vas at Grafcnberg, you are aware, upwards of nine months. I arrived hero in the autumn of 1844, in a slate ofhealih witioh might be considered desperate. ? The Water-Cure was my last hope for restoration; if that failed me, 1 had but to look forward to a brief life of misery and the grave. 1 shall never forget my drive up the mountain, from the little village ofFreiwaldau to Grafenbcrg. It was on the morning of the 25:h of September, through a driving shower of rain. Although the day was so cold and windy that the teeth chattered in my head, I met on the road numerous persons dressed in light summer clothing, without cravats, the shirt open, and thrown wide over the coat, and the only covering for the head, an umbrella. 1 supposed them the insane of Priessnitz's establishment, but soon ascertained my mistake, for it was the common habit of the patients while taking exercise preparasory to the baths. I was ushered into the presence ofj Priessnitz by his secretary, us forlorn and ? sad a looking object, perhaps, as ever so- I licited his skill. Priossnitz's dress was of j the plainest kind; his coat a gray frock, loosely and badly cut, pantaloons of the same material, vest double-breasted, and buttoned up to the throat; his complexion was fair and slightly pitted, (I afterwards heard him say, that he had the small pox Ik: fore he had a knowledge of the watercure, or he would not have been marked,) hair light, and shortly cut, the forehead j expansive and well-formed, expressing ! high perceptive and intellectual power ? moral sentiments well developed ? eye restless, brilliant, and strikingly penetrating ? nose prominent, mouth largo and square ? lips firmly and handsomely set together ? the figure erect and manly ? all together, his appearance was impressive. I felt that 1 was in the presence ofj no ordinary man. A member of the Aulic Council, who spoke English indiiferenily, was present, together with several other persons. A letter from Ex-President Vn>i tvlnch 1 was carelui 10 nave iKtnslateu into German, was the means of a ready and "avorable introduction. Priessnitz rapid- , y inquired the history of my malady, ( >assed his hands quickly over mine, said ( was curable, and that on the following ( lay he would accompany me to the bath ] o determine the treatment. * ??*?*??? #?**?? ****** J* Having experienced in my own person he efficacy of the practice, and witnessed ts extraordinary success in the persons of )thers, I naturally felt a lively interest to )btain lrom Priessnitz, not only a conncctjd account of his discoveries, and the mental process by which he arrived at :heni, but also a sketch of himself and family. I accordingly, a few days before my departure, apprised him of my wishes. So many unfounded and contraiictory versions of his discoveries had 1 made their way into books, pamphlets, md newspapers, that he was the more willing to oblige me. Vincent Priessnitz, then, was the youngest of six children, and was born on the fourth day of October, 1799, at Grafetiberg, the family residence, which lias since become so celebrated by his discoveries. Although often stigmatized as tn unlettered peasant, and of ignoble parentage, yet his father was a respectable, . landed proprietor. In virtue of the lawle whereby the real property descends to the youngest son, Priessnitz, on the death of his lather in 1830, became possessed of the family estates and residence, lie received the rudiments of education at the Catholic school, in the neighboring village of Freiwatdau, and was as well instructed as the majority of farmers' sons in our own country. Ilis mother lost her life in the year 1821, on the same field iv he re himself, not many years before, liad received an injury, the cure of which had contributed very greatly to extend his reputation, and lay the foundation of his future system, llis only brother, and the eldest born, is a distinguished Catholic priest, and is now at the head of the principal cathedral in one of the neighboring provinces. At the age of thirteen, Priessnitz sprained his wrist, which caused much pain and inflammation; he instinctively applied it to the pump. Finding that the water cooled the part, and assuaged tl)c pain, but unable to keep it constantly there, it occurred to him to apply an umschlag, or Wet bandage. lie applied one accordingly, which he re-wet as fast as it dried. He found that this was entirely successful in removing the inflammation and relieving the pain, but that it induced a rash; and as this was a phenomenon new to his youthful mind, aaunaccountablc.it led to much reduction. Was it favorable or the reverse, that such a consequence should flow from such a cause? Could it be that his blood was impure? He persevered in the application, and the wrist speedily regained its strength. Shortly after, being in the woods, he crushed his thumb. lie again resorted to the Um- j schlag, and with like success; but again j the rash made its appearance. lie tho't i his blood must be bad; yet he could not decide without further evidence. (To be Concluded.) ( Liberty. ? W'e like Burke's ideas of liberty. He says: "Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put chains upon their own Appetites; in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to tlin flattery of knave*. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon the will & appetite are placed somewhere: and the less of it there is written, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Passions forge their fetters." It is said that on a certian time, a Chinese widow being found fanning the grave of her husband, w as asked why she ( performed so singular an operation. ? i She had promised not to marry again while the grave was damp, and as it was j drying very slowly, she saw no harm in , assisting in the process, , Remarkable presence of mind. ? A workman employed in one of ihe mining shafts of the Scottish Central Railway lately had a most miraculous escape. ? lie had lighted the fusees connected with the charges of powder for the purpose of blasting, and gave the signal to be drawn up; but the rope slipping the poor fellow was suspended a few feet above where the explosion was to take place, with no death. With great fortitude and preset of mind, he called out to lower him, which was immediately done, und, advancing cautiously to the burning fusees, he jxtinguished them. On examination, hey were found to have burned within lialf an inch of the powder. Speech is an impcrfect delineation. ? The loveliest verses are those which we cannot write. The words of every language are incomplete; and every day the heart of a man finds in the shades of his sentiment and imagination, or in the impression .of visible nature, ideas that his lips cannot express. The heart and imagination of a man arc, ill fact, like a musician forced to play on an octave of notes, the infinite variety of which the whole scale is susceptible. It is belter to bo silent ; silence is the finest poetry at certain moments of existence: the spirit hears it ? the Creator understands it ? that is enough. ? De Lamraine. WtMmSTBXOXra ^SIPAIE'JIOOT. From the Boston Chronotype. THE GREAT LAND REFORM. " Vote yourself a farm," has passed current among wiseacres for an excellent joke upon a class of politicians who are represented as too lazy to work one if they had it. But the wisdom of this political war-cry is made every day more and more apparent by the conditmn of all the countries of Europe, and may be read in every emigrant ship which reaches our shores. Europe is casting out not merely its worst, but its best population. Why? Not because there is a physical famine in the land. It is commercial famine. ? Not because every nation of Europe is overpeopled, for not one has yet had population sufficient to reduce her territory to the highest state of cultivation, if she had employed them on the very best instead of the worst system. Europe is unpeopling herself on account of the iirfernal system of land monopoly which she I has received front the feudal ages. We have adopted from her the santo .system, and only wait the time when the natural geometrical progression of this monopoly shall overtake the lixed quantity of our soil to be in the same condition. When this lakes place, and our immense country, like Europo, is all represented by parchments iilcd awy^; in iron safes, and these parchments pertain only to one in a hundred or thousand of its ponufation, to what new comment shall the landless then betake themselves ! No time is to be lost in sowing the seed of a better system. The principle should be laid down among the fundamen till ones of our political constitution*, that laud is not a subject of exchange, to bo speculated in, accumulated, hoarded and monopolized I i k money. Some measure should at once be adopted to check all departures from this principle and bring back gradually and without violence the land already appropriated to its natural and just distribution. To all men who are willing to cultivate the soil asufficient portion of it should be made inalienable to yield a comfortable support to a family.Every year's delay in this great matter leaves us a stride nearer to the fearful condition of Ireland and Scotland. Every ship-load of needy emigrants from the old country puts fresh power into tho hands of our land monopolizers to imitato those who are breeding famines in the best cultivated countries of the world, and they are not slow to avail themselves of it. Therefore we say, and we have much more to say about it, the soundest and most important political maxim atloat is, " Vote yourself a farm." From tho Lowell Advertiser. LAND .MONOPOLY. The Essex Banner, on the land mo* rtopolysays: ''The Massachusetts Ploughman has nobly come out in favor of limiting the quantity of land which any one individual-should he allowed to own. Ireland is now wretched in consequence of ihe monopoly of land. The whole of Europe is monopolized. Hence the extent of immigration to this country. Our lands will gradually be possessed by a few, unless we make laws to secure to the public some indispensable title to such it porion of land, as with industry, will enable )ur future hundreds of millions of inhabtants to live independently. The Ploughman well says, "that our aws relating to tho distribution of estates, lo not prevent the monopoly of land by hose who are worth millions." Deprived of land, the multitude starve for want :>f employment. Let us not boast of our Christianity, while we uphold a system of land-holding, which violates every principle of the gospel. No less than slavery, the monopoly of land is a digrace iipVu o ^ I. . ?Z .t u 1 n Massachusetts no one ought lo control a thousand acres." Why should dnc man lie allowed, by law, ;o deprive a thousand persons of ther means of raising their bread? Italy, j recce, every country has been succcsiively ruined by the laws relating to land, t is time for Christians to obey, to pracice the gospel. Merely indulging a hope >f heaven, will not excuse us for making he earth a hell, as it has always been. ? The Ploughman also remarks, "that a nan's house and garden should not be ieizad for debt, that wo have no right toil rn a family into the street to secure a Jebt, because, like air and water, housesind land are necessary to our subsistsnco."Land monopoly will cause, in Ireland, wo millions of deaths, as many as were killed by the wars of Ca;sar and Napoieon."From the Dollar Newspaper. NO PARTY MEN. A partizan journal, somewhat distinjuished for its constancy and perseveruico in commending everything done by ts party, good, bad or indifferent, consist;nt or inconsistent, gives a definition of ' true party men," which applies very ustly to their antipodes. It says that ' party men are those whose political aclon is regulated by certain fixed princi>les, and who adhere to those principles vith the same inflexibility that they dotoiny principle of religion or morals. He cannot abandon his party, because ho* lannot give up his principles." It adds*, hat a " no parly man" is a term without lieaning, and that it " never knew a mam )ut of bedlunr that was not, in some: sense, a party man." Another partizan journal, commending' his, says that a " no party man" is only it for a surf of the Emperor of Russia, where ho could not enjoy the right even o think, much less to aid in electing his ?ulers, and in settling important political >rinciples. It adds thai those who boast if belonging to " no party," have no poiticurl' opinions, or have not the manliness o avow them ; and that, " not having the :ourago to decide between the various juestions that agitate the country, they lo not deserve the inestimable privileges which they so shamelessly neglect to exircine,"Neither of these journals seems to unlerstand its subject very clearly, as both confound principles with parties, and independence with partizan subserviency. They commend '? party men," and condemn " no party men." Yet they offe? a definition of each which applies dircctIv to its opposite. As we understand the character, a "no party man" is one whoso