No. 3.-CHOLERA PILLS. The hot air bath, or, if it is not at hand, dry Do not exceed the doses prescribed; and heat over the whole body in any shape, such as stop when the vomiting and cramps cease, unby hot blankets and hot bricks, sand, salt, or less you have medical advice. bottles of hot water, together with constant rubbing of the whole hody, should likewise be To be used if the mixtures No. 1 be vomitresorted to from the first. The mustard poul-ed. Two pills at first, and then one every half tices should, as soon as possible, be applied hour, if the first fail to relieve. Half these over the belly and on the soles and calves, and doses for children of 14; one-fourth for children kept on till the patient complains of the smart- of 7. Do not exceed the doses prescribed; ing. and stop when the vomiting and cramps cease, unless you have medical advice. By the time these measures have been put in force, opportunity will have been given for procuring medical advice, which is indispensable for the treatment afterwards. The board think No. 4--CHOLERA CLYSTERS. wise not. it necessary to apprize the public that, where of thin warm gruel; and retain as long as pos-. this disease has prevailed, blood-letting, when sible by pressure below with a warm cloth. If resorted to within the first, second, or third not retained, repeat immediately, but otherhour, from the commencement of the attack, has been very generally found useful along with the other remedies, notwithstanding the appearance of sudden weakness and excessive sink. ing already mentioned. Half the dose for children of 14; one fourth for children of seven. No. 5.-MUSTARD FOR POULTICES. A fourth part is, enough for one person. Dust it thickly over porridge poultices, of which apply a large one on the belly, and others on the soles and calves. Remove when the patient complains much of the smarting. Extract from the popular instructions as to the VI. By following these rules, and taking prompt advantage of the provision made at the Stationpoints, the board are convinced that in many cases it will be checked at the outset. But, at the same time, they strongly exhort the laboring classes to convey the sick friends with all speed to the hospitals, rather than try to cure them at home, where they can seldom have the proper means at command. The hospitals will, it is hoped, be so rumerous, that Avoid all chances of being chilled, and keep one shall be near every man's habitation; and the body warm, particularly the stomach, bowcarriages, to serve at the same time as dry-heat els, and feet. cholera morbus. Observe the strictest cleanliness both in person and dwellings. baths, may be found always ready at the hos-! Avoid placing the feet upon the cold floor. pitals and stations, for the instant removal of Workmen, obliged to work in cold or damp patients at all hours of the day and night. The places would do well to wear woooden shoes board feel assured, that by quickly availing or clogs. open. themselves of these provisions, working people Abstain from sleeping with the windows will get their sick friends brought sooner and far more effectually under treatment than in any other way; that they must not forget, that every minute's delay is highly dangerous. Return home at an early hour, in order to avoid the cold and damp of the night air. Avoid as much as possible excessive fatigue. Whatever may be the weather or the season, do not go too lightly clad. VII. The moment the disease is suspected to have appeared, information must be given to William G. Cunningham, Esq. Clerk to the Sobriety cannot be too strongly recommendBoard, at the City Chambers. And should it ed; consequently avoid all excesses of eating establish itself in the town, medical men are and drinking, for it has been observed that expected to send to the same quarter, every drunkards and debauchees have been most exmorning before half past nine, a report of each posed to the attacks of the cholera. new case, death, or recovery, specifying the Let your food be principally meat and meat name, residence, age, employment, date of soups; eat as little as possible of charcuterie and seizure, and date of the event. The board salt meats, and abstain entirely from heavy anxiously look for punctuality in this respect pastry. from every medical person. Specimens of the labels are here annexed, for the information of medical persons and others in the country who may be applied to for the articles recommended by the board. Abstain from undressed food of every description. All cold drinks, taken when a person is heated, are at all times dangerous. The water used as a beverage ought to be clear. Filtered water is better than any other. Instead of No. I. CHOLERA MIXTURE. drinking it pure, it would be better to mix it A table-spoonful, with 60 drops of lauda- with two spoonfuls of brandy or absinthe to a num, in half a wine-glassful of cold water. If pint. Water lightly mixed with wine is equalthis fail to relieve, repeat two spoonfuls; with thirty drops of laudanum every half hour The excessive use of strong liquors is very Half these doses of mixture and laudanum, pernicious, and taking unmixed brandy when for children of 14. One-fourth for children fasting is equally so. Persons who have contracted the habit of doing so, should, at least, of 7. ly good. first eat a piece of bread. The same objections fect to other causes, mysterious and unscrutaapply to drinking white wine fasting. ble. It appears, however, that this dangerous All beer and cider of bad quality ought to constitution of the atmosphere, is not fully be avoided. equal to an elaboration of the disease until the Every person who feels himself suddenly human system has been prepared for the affected by dull pains in the limbs, heaviness or change, by the operation of various predispos giddiness of the head, a feeling of oppression, ing causes. In this class must be ranked whatuneasiness of the chest, heartburn, cholic, ever tends to depress the mind, enervate the should immediately apply to a physician, or the body, or impair the functions of its organs. next Bureau de Secours. Such of these causes as are believed to have Persons thus affected should immediately go contributed to this predisposition on board the to bed, and take, quite hot, an infusion of pep-frigate Congress shall be here enumerated, viz. permint and flowers of the lime tree, and heat a dread of the disease, frequent necessary exhimself by every possible means. posure at night, to a malignant atmosphere. Prepared chloric solutions being universally Sometimes sleeping thus exposed when thinly recommended as a useful precaution against or negligently clad, and after much exercise infection of any kind, it may be desirable to and fatigue during the day. It is of the utgive the following receipt for making them : most importance, under such circumstances, Take one ounge of dry chlorate of lime, and that the body should be well protected by flanone quart of water; pour a sufficient quantity nels, or other warm clothing. A loss of tone, on the powder to make it into paste, and then and an impaired state of the functions of the dilute it with the remainder, strain off the so-system generally, with a tendency to hepatic lution, and keep it in glass or earthen vessels derangement, and anorexial disease. well stopped; a portion of this solution should This state of the system may have been probe poured into a shallow bowl, and placed in duced partly by the long continued influence every room in the house. of a tropical climate, and partly by the effects The chlorate of soda is nearly as good, it is of a less generous diet than seems to have been to be used in the same manner, in the propor-requisite. Our ship's provisions, when we left tion of one ounce of chlorate to ten or twelves Manila, (owing, probably, to circumstances ounces of water. which could not have been foreseen,) were of rather an inferior quality, and we had previousCopy of Doctor Edwards' report on Cholera," ly met with difficulty in obtaining a sufficient as it appeared in the United States' frigate supply of fresh food. Congress, in the Chinese seas, in 1820. U. S. NAVAL RENDEZVOUS, The superior quality of the provisions with which our ships are generally furnished, is un. doubtedly the very best prophelactic against scurvy and all low malignant fevers. Permit SIR: In answer to the request with which I me also to remark, in this place, that the daily am honored, proposing certain inquiries re-allowance of ardent spirits, given as it generalspecting the disease called "Asiatic Cholera," ly is, at two draughts, and upon an empty which prevailed on board the United States' stomach, before meals, produces, for the mofrigate Congress, in the Chinese seas, in De-ment, high gastric excitement, which is necescember, 1820, I beg leave to submit the fol-sarily followed by correspondent debility. If lowing remarks, expressive of my views and those who are unwilling to relinquish their raopinions in regard to that disease, as it appeared under my observation. The first appearance of the Cholera on board the Congress, was on the third day after we had anchored at Manilla. The disease there wore the form of the most deadly pestilence. The environs of the city were supposed to have lost upwards of ten thousand inhabitants, in the space of two months. Few died within the walls of the city, where mostly resided the wealthier class of citizens. tions of ardent spirits were permitted to drink it, not previous to, but during or immediately. after their meals, it would, no doubt, contribute more to the purpose of an agreeable and healthy stimulus, and the increased excitement, instead of being transferred to the brain would be expended in the process of digestion. The unhealthy state of the atmosphere previously mentioned, I cannot believe will ever extend upon the ocean, where there is neither unhealthy exudation nor dew, or any change The principal cause of this disease in the of temperature at night. I am induced also to Congress, was unquestionably attributable to believe, that the cholera appears commonly an intemperament or insalubrity of the atmos- within three or four days, very rarely after six phere; a full explanation of which cannot be or eight days from the time of exposure to its given. Of some of its characteristics, I can atmosphere. We took no precaution to sepaspeak with confidence. The air about Manilla, rate the sick from the healthy, and we were was evidently much vitiated by noxious exha- aware of no circumstance, which could induce lations from the surface of the earth. It was a belief that the disease was ever communicat also affected by a very great and sudden reduced from one person to another, either on board tion of temperature at night, accompanied with the ship, or on shore at Manilla, where the poor thick heavy fogs, remarkable for their humidi- and destitute were falling by thousands. ty. These perceptible changes of the atmos- The attack of the cholera was seldom much phere, must have aided materially in giving ef-'preceded by premonitory symptoms. It was where the symptoms being milder, reaction ensues, and an inflammatory diathesis is pre. sented. The treatment must necessarily be adapted to the grade of the disease, to the stage of its advancement, and to the circumstances of the case. This is always best done at the frequently announced by an immediate pros. tration of all the powers of life. The patient, unable to stand and describe his feelings, would lay down upon deck, and cry out with pain. In a few cases it was preceded by a pain in the stomach and head, in some by a numbness and sense of formication in the extre-bedside of the patient. mities, followed by spasms, full vomiting and I have here endeavored to present, on the dejections of a copious watery secretion, first specific points of inquiry, the best information at long intervals, but soon recurring every ten I am possessed of; if it can be made to serve, or twelve minutes, with a burning pain in the in any degree, to promote the benevolent obstomach, great thirst, unceasing agonizing | ject proposed, it will be highly gratifying to, cramps-a death-like countenance-a hollow Sir, with great respect, voice-cold clammy sweats-cold extremities -suppression of urine-dark livid skin-loss of pulse, and the mind in despair. Your obedient servant, D. S. EDWARDS, M. D. Secretary of the Navy, Washington. FROM THE N. Y. JOURNAL OF COMMERCE. CHLORIDE OF SODA. In most cases, after these symptoms had con- To the Hon. LEVI WOODBURY, tinued commonly from three to six hours, the spasms and vomiting abated, and the patient was left free from pain, but extremely exhausted, like one in the last stage of a typhus fever, and generally survived but a few hours. During illness the mind became depressed; and during the last stage of the disease, the patient, although free from pain, seldom expressed a wish to survive. In some of the worst cases, there was neither vomiting nor purging, but the system was bound until death, by indissoluble spasm. This valuable disinfecting agent will be found of use in the present season of danger, and especially if we should be invaded by the disease which threatens us. We have before us a certificate signed by several respectable gentlemen, stating that specimens of the article manufac tured by J. Boston, Wall street, were found on experiment to be almost three times as strong as that from France, said to be of the manufac ture of M. Labarraque. The manner of using it, (i.e. the concentrated solution,) is described as follows: To prevent infection from Cholera Morbus, Small Pox, Yellow Fever, Typhus Fever, &c. sprinkle the liquid diluted around the bed and on the floor; place some in shallow pans in the sick room, and renew frequently; soak the linen of the patient in it, and rinse out, before sending to wash. Dilution 1 portion by mea sure, of the chloride, to 60 parts water. To purify apartments of the sick, hospital wards, prisons, poor houses, ships, glue and starch manufactories, crowded rooms, &c. &c. Sprinkle the floor with the diluted liquid; expose the same in shallow open vessels; moisten cloths with it, and hang them up in the room, changing them twcie a day, or oftener, according to the offensiveness of the place. Dilution 1 part chloride, to 60 parts water. From the moment of attack, there was never sufficient reaction to indicate depletion, or any antiphlogistic treatment. Venesection was practised in one case, deemed the most favorable, but threatened the immediate extinction of life. In most of the severe cases, we proved the total inefficiency of all human aid. We employed stimulants, and anodynes of almost every description, and in every variety of doses bitters, alkalies, warm baths, steam baths, embrocations, frictions, and every revulsive agent. Of these the most effectual remedy was anodynes, given in full doses, and repeated af. ter every paroxysm, or until the system became tranquilized: if this was soon effected, there were hopes of recovery; if not, nothing availed. The drink was toast water, sipped by the spoonful-large draughts renewed the vomiting; a full dose of calomel and opium, if it could have been given twenty-four hours previous to the accession of the disease might have continued the biliary and other secretions, and possibly have prevented the attack, but was of no effect after. Those of the sick who were under the influence of mercury escaped the disease. In post-mortem examination, we found in the upper intestines, a thin serous fluid, and a light cream-colored coagulum. There was no appearance of bile in the duodenum, which seemed much inflamed. The probe passed easily through the biliary ducts. To disinfect clothes, linen, &c. especially The gall bladder was filled with a fluid resem- of persons sick with contagious diseases; it is bling molasses-the liver and large venous only necessary to dip the articles into the liquid, trunks were surcharged with blood, thin and and they may be withdrawn completely disinnearly black, but not coagulated. The sto-fected; or stand a shallow vessel, with the solu mach exhibited slight symptoms of inflam-tion, in the press that contains the clothes If mation. the case be malignant, let them lie in the liquid a couple of hours before rinsing. Dilution: 1 part chloride to 60 parts water. The disease evidently was more unmanageable in Asia, than it has yet been in Europe, To purify air between decks. Sprinkle the decks during the day, and during the night suspend small shallow buckets full of the solution, diluted half and half. To remove the corrupt smell of bilge water, and to destroy it in sugar ships. Throw one or two buckets full down the pump well until the smell is overcome. Dilution: 1 part chloride to 60 parts water. To disinfect sewers, cess-pools, privies, propose to refer their mode of redress to the &c. Throw down a quantity of clean water, people of the State, called to deliberate in conand then a pail full' of the liquid; if not suffi-vention. What objection can those who procient, repeat after 10 or 15 minutes. In emp- pose to call a convention of the southern States, tying very foul sewers, each laborer should have have to a convention of their own State? Is it, a pail full beside him, and now and then mois-we again ask, the apprehension that they are ten a sponge with the liquid, and wash round in a minority at home? If so, that is at once the mouth and nostrils. Dilution: Halt pint an insuperable objection to their going into a chloride to one pail water. convention of the States. We have copied To disinfect dead bodies for the use of jurors, their proceedings, because the time has arriv coroners, and undertakers. Wash the corpse ed when it becomes the duty of every citizen occasionally with the liquid; wrap it in a sheet to inform himself well, and of the press to note well wetted with the solution, and sprinkle a-all important proceedings, having a bearing round often. Dilution: 1 part chloride to 60 upon the great question of taxation. parts water. To purify stables contaminated with infectious diseases. Wash the walls, racks, mangers, &c. with the solution; sprinkle the floor, and rinse, after the lapse of an hour with clean water. Dilution: 1 part chloride to 60 parts water. To fumigate completely a building or spacious apartment. Take 1 part chloride and 2 parts water, and 1 parts ulphuric acid and 10 parts water; remove every living thing not to be destroyed; close all apertures, and pour the two mixtures together. UNION MEETING. FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER. UNION MEETING. Agreeably to public notice, a very large number of the UNION AND STATE RIGHTS PARTY, assembled at Seyle's, on Tuesday evening. The honorable Henry Middleton was called to the chair; on assuming the office, Mr. Middleton delivered the following address: Gentlemen: The unexpectedness of the call which has procured for me the honor of presiding in so numerous and respectable a meeting of my fellow citizens as is here assembled, and the circumstance that most of those who hear me are familiar with the history of the causes We give in this day's paper the proceedings which have produced and kept np a degree of at a meeting held in Charleston, South Caroli-political excitement unexampled in our State, na, by the Union party" so called. There will prevent the possibility and the necessity of are some circumstances connected with this my entering into any details on the present ocmovement which are calculated tofinduce a be- casion. I shall therefore only ask your indullief that it is connected with the late movements gent attention for a few moments. in New York-that it receives its impulse After a successful progress of more than forty from this place, and is intended to counteract years under a system of laws where power is the effect which the adjournment of Congress, wisely distributed in due proportion between without a satisfactory adjustment of the tariff, our national and State authorities, we see in will necessarily produce on Virginia, and all the our State the elements of strife at length gainsouthern states. We regret that at a moment the ing the ascendancy over those of order, and south should be united, when all agree that ac- about to destroy the equipoise hitherto mainquiescence is no longer a virtue, the minority tained, threatening to engulph alike, present in South Carolina should, by rallying all the good and future hopes, which rest mainly on force in opposition to the favorite measure of our balanced modes of government. the majority, encourage the hopes of their op- The question whether any or what degree of pressors, by giving countenance to the belief protection against foreign competition ought to that a portion of her population should be pre- be extended to the products of our soil and pared to take the side of the exercise of un- the fabrics of our industry, alike under the dicconstitutional power by the Federal Govern-tates of a wise policy, and in pursuance of the ment. In this view of the case, we cannot but provisions of our federative compact, appears for regret the temper of these proceedings. What some time past to have absorbed our whole atdo they propose by a convention called by the tention; and yet this question, in itself so simUnion party? Is it to be called in opposition to ple, and perhaps susceptible of an easy solution, the will of the majority? If not, the movement if submitted to the test of reason, has given should have been made in concert with the ma- rise to so many conflicting opinions, founded jority? Or is it supposed that the Union party, for the most part in prejudice and passion, that by going into a convention, can obtain the as- it requires more than mortal ken to say whether cendancy over the State rights party of South it can be peaceably settled. Carolina, by creating a great southern party in which their counsels are to predominate? A cloud of more than usual darkness lowers over the political horizon; and unfortunately, These are times when it becomes all who re at this moment, when the storm impends, some fuse to pay tribute to unite; and, it would of our pilots seemed disposed to cut the cables seem to us, that, instead of laboring to which moor our gallant ship in the haven of keep up odious divisions, which are now the safety, willing to launch her into the troled only hope of the advocates of a high tariff, they ocean, and to steer into an unknown port. should be evaded. The State Rights party The unhappy differences which now subsist between our National and State Governments, changed when our politicians, instead of confinneither of which is sovereign, being both co-ing their opposition to the tariff, began to atordinate branches of the same complex system; tack the constitution itself. When nullfication can only be brought to a termination by a re- was proposed by our State rulers, it was seen currence on all sides to the spirit of compro- that it could not be adopted without treating mise and concession in which our whole frame the constitution as a nullity. Those who had of government originated, and which alone can been bred up in a sincere attachment to the prolong its existence-when this is accomplish institutions of their country, could not be pered, then (and then only) shall we feel again as a suaded to sacrifice them so easily; and without united people. paliating or excusing the errors of the General To give your utmost aid to so glorious a con. Government, they refused to concur in a measummation, I am assured, gentlemen, is the object of your meeting this night. To the same object I shall feel most happy to contribute my best exertions. I am now ready to perform the duties of the chair. sure that involved its destruction. But moderate councils find little favor with those who are bent on new opinions; and to inflame beyond all bounds the indignation as a people naturally jealous of their rights, and cause them, in considering the end, to overlook all objection John Phillips, Esq. was appointed Secratary. to the character of the means employed, was James L. Petigru, Esq. then rose, and after regarded by some as the best or only proof of reviewing, in an impassioned and lucid argu- a disinterested zeal for the public good. The ment, the political condition of the State, mov-lines of party were in this way drawn-the seed that a committee be nominated by the chair paration was inevitable—the difference admitto take into consideration the purposes of this ted of no compromise, and the champions of meeting, and to report thereon. The chair-nullification have arrayed one part of the State man selected the following gentlemen to con- against another, in a time of all others requirstitute the committee. J. L. PETIGRU, Chairman. Thomas Bennett, Nicholas Harleston, Seaman Deas, Dr. S. H. Dickson, Simon Magwood, B. F. Hunt, ing the greatest unanimity among her citizens. The Union party have nothing to reproach themselves with; compelled as they have been to withstand the inroads of a licentious innovation, they have continued to maintain the principles of the constitution, without abating one jot of their hostility to the tariff. The party whose distinctive character consists in their peculiar notions of the power of a State to nullify any law of Congress which that State may think unconstitutional, have hitherto been unable or unwilling to reduce their theory to practice; but its real character can be easily understood, without the assistance of a During the committee's absence, Richard practical illustration. To see that the theory Yeadon, jun. Esq., in a most appropriate, elo. is false, we have only to read the constitution; quent, and forcible speech, offered the follow- and to appreciate the value of that deceitful caing resolution, which was unanimously adopt-suistry which confounds the distinction between ed. right and wrong, it is only necessary to read Resolved, That the Honorable John Forsyth, what has been written with most ability in its of Georgia, is entitled to the warmest thanks of favor. Indefensible as the argument is, that the Union party of South Carolina, for his man- the constitution reserves to every State a right ly and generous defence in the Senate of the to reverse the acts of the General Government, United States, of their principles and motives, the supporters of this doctrine contend, that when gratuitously assailed and traduced, by a such a power is essential to the protection of Senator of their own State, in secret session of the liberties of the States. But it is not of such the Senate. arms that the cause of liberty stands in need. The committee, on their return, presented If the Union be indeed a yoke too heavy to be through their chairmain, the following address borne, the principles of resistance is paramount and resolutions: to all constitutions; but to that principle, when FELLOW-CITIZENS: The present state of pub- a crisis justifying a resort to it shall arrive, an lic affairs demands your earnest attention. By an event which every good citizen and honest man ill judged and most unhappy course of legisla- must fervently deprecate, all of us are willing tion, the General Government has imposed on to appeal, except perhaps the few who flatter a reluctant people burthens and restric-themselves that they have found out a political tions which have excited the keenest sense panacea-a scheme for resisting the law withof injustice. In their opposition to the out incurring its penalties; and setting at defi. protective system, the people of the southern ance the powers of co-ordinate sovereignties States have been nearly unanimous, and as long without assuming an attitude of hostility. as resistance to that system was confined to The peaceful nature of nullification is strenu constitutional means, no division of parties, in ously insisted on, and has been often commendrelation to that subject, could have existed in ed; but in fact it is peaceful only so far as it is South Carolina. But the case was altogether insidious. If it bring on no collision with the |