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All comipaaicaMnnH to be n.lired to CIIA'S T. I'littlislitT IMEPOKI? BY CIIA'S T. HUSTON. ATHENS, EliAEFOlll) CO. APRIL 14, 1870..

VOI, I-NUM. he Susquehanna above the mouth of Towanda i bo a' burthen nor sorrow. Ho adds, "des-1 You havo my warmest wishes for ful-pito nil our efforts against her, even ns tho filluient your desire to establish your social stato now is, nature will indeed still paper aa one of the permanent institutions THE ATHENS GLEANER. Plrat Military Expedition to Tioga Point Its Object-'its Commander its Incidents. COUATID FOB TOE XtlilSSS GLEANER FI10M HISTORIC UECOIIDS BY S.

HAY1JKX. armed irco, to hold a peaceful conference with or resist him as circumstances might determine. The meeting was fruitless. Tho battlo of Oriskany soon followed, and tho bloody pages in the history of the border warfare of the Revolution then commenced. Our northern and western frontiers, from tho head waters of the Delaware to the OhiOjWoro.

scenes of savage cruelty. pupil of the eyes to dilate and become very brilliant.while a pleasant expression passed oyer (lf tLo (, seemed to J00 tho su" stars- It bo fancy, but it always i appears to us, so brilliantly placid is the countenance, as if their vision was illumin- aed the lurios of hwcn i qtly and easy do most people die, i w0 U'J 110t tlimk death to bo painful or physically cruel in its operation. of my old home and in connc'lion therewith you may chalk me down as a perma-nant subscriber. Now let me give you a dose of Chicng.t nrWs, sensations, a pleasant medicine that fully makes up in quantity fir lack of Mtaliiy. To-day tho metropolis of tho West, Chicago! with her population of over threo hundred thousand souls, forty years ago, one Indian.

"How's that fir protress?" If the original Mr. Lo (upon whose hack Chicago is said to have been founded) could step in now he would sure- ly exclaim, ''Who's bin here since I'se bin gone?" (allowing him to be an improbable Dutch Indian There are among your townsmen several (who are yet in the vigor of life) who will remember old Fort Dearborn at the mouth of Chicago river, and the half dozen huts that occupied the ground wlrorc now stands tho great Union depot. It is astonishing, to ourselves as well as strangers, tho AkUin like rapidity with which immense and magnificent blocks are springing tip as it were in a night, upon all of our business thoroughfares. Mr. H.

M. Shopard, whom some of your readers will remember, has recently completed one of the finest marble blocks in tho eit', a source of prido no doubt, to himself, as well as nn ornament to the street. For tho first time since my arrival some two years ego, filthy and stagnant Chicago river has got its back up, and is showing somo signs of activity; the recent heavy fall of snow rapidly melting has stirred up tho river Styx, (as we tali it) resulting in a cleaning' out of the accumulated filth of years, for which sanitary measure we are grateful. The Pacific Hotel Co. of this city aro soon to commence tho erection of a mammoth hotel, iu its appointments and stylo of architecture to surpass anything in this country.

'It to beat the Dutch" in their efforts at a Continental. I understand that it is to be called the Ogdeu House in honor of Win. n.the rail road king, woo is le.rg-idy in its eomf ruction. I shall have occasion to speak.oft'.iis house again, contenting myself with this passing mention for the present. I noticed with pleasure in tho Council proceedings published in the GlKANKlit that a move has been made in the right direction by that body towards securing fire apparatus for yoar town; certainly past experience has amply proved your utter helplessness in case of firo.

I would suggest (with all due deference fur their superior judgment) that they recommend the purchase of a half dozen of tho Bab-cock Fire Extinguishers. The advantage of this powerful little engine consists mainly in tho fact that it is always ready for use, and can be handled with so much ease.tho chemicals with which it is charged working instantly. iVo time lost in getting ready to iu thooiseef tho bunnlinrr old fashioned band engines, and Wo also wcro told that young Butler had been at Tioga a few Hours before we came-that be had 300 Men with him, the most of them I ones, dressed in green -that thev were returned towards Cho- nmng, 12 Miles oil', that they detcrmin- ed to give us Battle some of the Defiles near it. It was soon resolved we should proceed no further, but II possible, mako our way good to Wiomiiig. fWe burnt Tioga, Queen Hester's Palace or Town, all tho settlements on this side several Canoes were taken and Some Plunder, Part of which was destroyed.

close on Butler he in possession of the Town of SliawwJ 3 Miles up tho Cayuga Branch, but as we did not advance, ho returned. The Constcr nation of the Enemy was great, we pushed our good Fortune as far as we dare, nay, it is probable tho good countenance we put on saved us from destruction, as we were advanced so far into tho Enemy's Country no return but what wo could make with tho sword. We camo to Sheshecunuiik that night. Had we had 500 Regular Troops, and 150 Light Troops, with one or two Pieces or artillery, we probably nuglit have lies troveel Cliemuns, which is now the re- cepticlo of all villainous Indians Tories Irom the different inbes and slates From this thev mako their Excursions against the Frontiers' of N. York, Penn sylvania, Jevsev, i Wyoming, fe commit those horrid Murders and Devastations we have heard of.

Niagra and Chemung arc tho assilums of, those Tories who cannot get to New Yol k. On the Morning of the SSth, we crossed the liivcr and Marched towards Wyaltis-ing, where we arrived that night at eleven o'clock our men much worn down our Whiskey Flour was gone. On tho Morning of the 2l)th we were obliged to stay 'tili eleven o'clock to kill and cook Beef. This necessary stop gave the Enemy Leasure to approach." Below Wyalusing, tho enemy made a desperate attack, but were repulsed, with losses on both sides, leaving them the greatest sufferers. We have not room for describing tho battlo of Wyalusing.

He returned to Sunbury, 5th October, having made, this laborious and eventful expedition, of about three hundred miles, in two Wfoks. Ho ale his report on the f-v, Oct nr.d pi ropived from Coun- cil a uuaniai ois vote thaiiKS "for his brave and prudent conduct in covering the north-western frontier'," But a few weeks elapsed after the return of Col. Hartley to Sunbury, before the Indians came again fr the Tioga region in great force, and de: iroyed all tho settlements on the North Branch, except a fort at Wyoming, nearly down to Sunbury, and also many of those on tho AVest Branch. On his reporting this to tho Council i Philadelphia, the distressed situation of the settlements was by Congress referred to Gen.Washington, tog.ther with Gen. Armstrong's planter cond.ictingtho war, on the which arose the celebrated expedition of Sullivaninthc summer of 1770.

In the spring presedi- this, Col. Hartley resinned his command Jii this frontier district andCol.Adam HiiLIov was aimohitod in his place. We have littlo space for further incidents relating to Col. Hartley and the military events of his time. He becamo, while connected with the army, a member of the masonic military lodge held in the Pa.

line.butattheclosoofthe war ho joined the present existing bulge at Sunbury. He returned however to his law profession in York, and was in 17-JS elected to Congress from this State. lecontinued a member of that body until his deeth.on the21st of Dec. ISOO.at thcagooflify-twoyears. He had also been honored with many othercivil offices in hrs State.

His name is bestowed upon IIahti.ky rich and romantic portion of the west cud of Buffaloe valley, in Union county, Penn'a; but wo have no memorial, at old Tioga Point, which bears his name. He was the first who bore our country's flag where Athens now stands, and shall not one of the new streets now forming in our beautiful town be honored with tho name of ILvnn.EY Am kxs, March, 1,870 FOR THE ATIIEX3 QLtAXER. Co we Suffer when Dying, or is Dying a painless Process Before answering this question, or giving our views on the subject, we may be per mitted to repeat that "death is the king of terrors," and the human race shrink irom it as the most dreaded of all events through which they are called to pass. The infant, the youth, the mf.ldle aged, and those who are ripe in years, have passed its portals, but none have returned to inform us if the act of dying is one of great suffering. All that we know of the paiu endured by the dying, is from expressions that are manifested by individuals while passing from life to death.

Wo have witnessed death at all ages and under very many different circumstances, and have watched with great care its phenomena wo have tried to study the philosophy and state of those dying; we have observed. the breath grew shorter and less frequent, the crees, was tno iiiuian own country men nothing but their hostilities, and aid of the British in tho war.could justify an invasion of. Had they remained neutral iu the white man's contest, tho pen of history would have had no invasion of their towns and hunting grounds to record. The general plan of offensive and defensive operations on tho frontiers having been given to Col. Hartley, the details were entrusted entirely to him.

Few regular troops could be spared him, and his forces were mostly such as ho hastily collected in the frontier settlements. In all, they were hut a tew hundreds, and scantily provided with the means of war. But a lev, weeks had passed since the enemy had desolated Wyoming, and they had since hovered around all the frontier settlements. It is difficult to describe tho exact situation of Col. Hartley at this time.

But, with a prudence which was essential to tho general welfare, he stationed a few of his men in his fortified posts of Sunbury, Wyoming and Muucy, and with tho little band of about 200 remaining for his purpose, he started from Money, on tho 21st of Sept. 1778, and boldly pushed through tho wilderness to Tioga Point, even at the hazard of meeting vastly superior forces of Tories and At Tioga when almost within their grasp ho burned their town, and after inflicting other serious inj uries on them, turned his pathway down the Susquehanna, with his little, heroic band, who successfully defended themselves against largely superior forces of Indian warriors whose homes and territory had now been for the first time invaded by our army. From Vol. VII. of our State Archives, we copy (ho main portion of Col.

Hartley's official report of this expedition, embracing tho stirring events of the first week Address of Cut. Hartley to Cuniress. 1773. "With Volunteers and others wo reckoned on 400 Bank File for (he expedition, besides 17 Horse, which I mounted from niv own Ucgt, under the Command U- Otir Rendezvous was Fort Hurley, on the West Branch, intending to penitrate, by tho'Sheslicounnnnk Path, to I'inga, at ino oi uie Laua. Willi liio main North-Mast Branch of Susquehanna, from thence actus circumstances might require.

Tho Troops met at Miuicythe 18 Septr; when we came to count and array our Force for the Expedition, they amounted only to about 200 Rank and File. We thought the number small, but as we presumed the Enemy had no notice of our Designs, we hoped at least to make a good Diversion if no more, whilst the Inhabitants were saving their grain on the Frontier. On the Morning of the 21st, at four o'clock, we inarched from Muncy, with the Force I have mentioned; wo carried two Boxes of spara ammunition and Twelve davs Provisions. In our limit we met with great Rains, it prodigious swamps, Mountains, Defiles Rocks impeded our march; we had to open and clear the way as we passed. We waded or swain the River Lycom ing upwards of 20 'fin i wih not trouble your honourable Body with a tedious Detail, but I can not help observing that, I iininagine, the Difficulties in Crossing the Alps, or passing up Kcnnipeck, could not have been 'greater than those our men experienced for the Time.

1 have the Pleasure to say they surmounted them with great Resolution and 1 ortitudo. In lonely woods and groves we found tho Haunts and Lurking Places of the savage Murderers who had desolated our Frontier. We saw the Huts where they bad dressed and dried the scalps of the helpless women Children who had fell in their hands. On the morning of the 2Gth our Advance Party of 10 mot with an equal Number of Indians on the Path, approaching each other our People had the lirst Fire, a very important Indian Chief was killed and scalped, tho rest fled. A few Miles further we discovered where upwards of 70 Warriors had lay the night before, on their March towards our Frontiers, the Panick communicated, they fled with their Brethern.

No Time was lost, we advanced towards Sheshecunuiik, in tho Neighbourhood of which place we took 15 Prisoners from them we learnt that a Man had deserted froinCapt. Spalding's Company at Wioming, after the Troops had marched from thence, had given the enemy Notice of our intended Expedition against Shorn. Wo moved with (ho greatest Dispatch towards Tioga, advancing our Horse, and somo Foot in Front, who did their duty very well a number of the Enemy lied before us with precipitation it was near dark when we came to that Town our Troops were much fatigued it was impossible to proceed further that Night. We took another Prisoner upon the wholo Information, we were clear din savage had Intelligence of us some days That the Indians had been towards the German Flats had taken 8 scalps broughtof 70 oxen intendedforthe garrison of Fort Stanwix That on their Return they were to have attacked Wioming and the settlements on tho West Branch again That Col Morgan nor no other Person had attempted to penctrato into the Enemy's Country, as we had been given to understand, and that the Collected force at Chemung would be upwards of 500, thai they were building a Fort there. vindicate herself at times, and show us determinedly how she would if she could involve, fold imperceptibly, life into death how, if the free will with which sho has armed us, often against hersell, were bro't into time and tune with her, she would give us tho beauties and wonders of the universe for our portion, so long as the brain could receive and retain, the mind appreei-ciato, and at last wean us 'he world, by the most silent of ways, leaf' us to euthanasia.

The true euthanasia, (I have read it through nli its stages, ton at least, says Dr.R.) is in its perfect ion, among the most wonderful of natural phenomena. i he lacuities ot niina winch nave tieen intellectual, without pain, anger, or sorrow, loso their way, retire, rest. Ideas of time and place are gradually lost, ambition cep scs, repose is the one thing asked for, and sleep day by day gently and genially wiles away tho hours. The wakings are short, painless, happy awakening to a living world; to hear sounds of children at play to hear iust audibly gentle voices offering aid and eomlbrt to talk a little on simple things, and by the merest weariness to be enticed once again into soothing sleep; which day by day, with more frequent repetition, overpowers all. At last the intellectual man.reduccd to tho instinctive, the consummation is desirable; and without pain or struggle or knowledgo of the coming event, the deep sleep that falls so often is the sleep perpetual euthanasia.

This, I repeat, iu the death by nature." Tho above quotation is so beautiful a delineation of the death by nature, I feel that this article would be quite incomplete without it. But death not unfrequently ocCurs of a violent character, from purely natural causes, over which man has no control. Such arc drowning, sun-stroke, lightning-stroke, and the crash of matter. When death is caused by those agents, it accom plishes its destruction so rapidly, the im pression conveyed to the body is not Known or felt. The action is so sudden, the mind can not reaisler the act, and hence there is no suffering from sueh a death.

Other forms of death, iolent in their nature, lire not from 'natural causes. Such are those who die on the battle Cold or are crushed by collisions of railways and other heavy moving bodies. While we feel it is terrible to die iu this way, the death is so sudden, no pain is felt. We are familiar with instances where individuals have received sudden injuries, of various kinds. so went that the nervous system was over whelmed, and the 'mind clear, and no pain felt as life ebbed slowly away.

We might extend our remarks to many more modes of dying, but wo feel that enough has been said to convince a reflec ting mind that death is not a cruel or painful process in most cases, and that mature is beneficent to her creatures by throwing around them a shroud that pro-vents suffering by benumbing their senses or anaesthetising them in their passi from life through death. E. P. A for tho Gr.HANEii.and respectfully dedicated to all gadders, night-walkers, and such especially the married of the genus gentlemen, by DON'T STAY LATE TO-NIGHT! The hearth of home is beaming With r.iya of rosy light And lovoly eyes nre gleamicff, As fills the ehadoa of night; And while thy stops are leaving The circle pure and bright, A trnior vica, half graving, Says, 'D jn't stay lato to-night." The world In which thou movest Is busy, brave and wide Xbe world of her thou lovest Is on tho ingle side; She waits for thy fond greetins, Thy sallC is her delight Her gentle voice entreating, Says, "Don't stay late tonight." Tho world Is cold, inhuman, Will spurn thee in thy fall; The loro of one pure woman Outtists and shames them nil. Thy children will cling around lhee Let fate be dark or bright At home no shaft will wound thee, Then, "Don't stay lato ti-night." IiOidcr from CIiicRgo.

Dated March 1S70-. I take it for granted (quite egotistically of course) that a few words of congratulation and kindly greeting, topped off with a little news, from a western friend, would find a welcome, both with yourself and tho readers of your excellent paper. The first two numbers of the leaner havo been received, and I confess to an agreeable surprise after a perusal of their woll stocked columns, surprised at finding them so replete with such readable and instructive matter. Taking tho numbers before us as pre cursors of thoso to follow in the future.we have no hesitance in predicting abundant sucic lor the Glea.nli:. Tlioro is a thrilling interest, to the citizens of our valley, in all that relates to its early history.

Tioga Point, for a period which no written records determine, had been the southern gateway of the six Indian nations in Now York which formed the Iroquois confederacy. Through it, they passed in their war expeditions against ruoro southern tribes, and from this point, two diverging war-paths led, one directly down tho Susquehanna to AVyoming and Northumberland (then called Shamokin,) and thenco across to the Juniata near Huntington, and thence on to tho Potomac by tho wayof Bedford. The other diverging path from Tioga (then called )i-a-ho-ja) crossed our present county by tho way of Canton, then down the Lycoming crock to tho West Branch of tho Susquehanna, thence up to Lock Haven and across to Bedford, where it again united with the Wyoming war-path to tho There were also other war-paths which branched off from those below Tioga, loading to the homes of tribes tributary to tho Iroquois. These Indian war-paths became known to the Knglish colonists through white traders who trod them in pursuit of gain, and ehristiau missionaries who sought the wild homes of the savages to instruct them in the doctrines of a revealed religion. It is also probable that in tho district wo are contemplating, tho Knglish traders and missionaries had been preceded by those of the French, and perhaps also by Spanish adventurers but the written narratives and records of those connected with the Knglish colonies only have conic down to tIS.

Before the war of tho Involution commenced, tho sis nations of the Iroquois, and their dependent tribes. were nominally the subjects of the British king. They had long been taught to call the Knglish, ''brothers," and their war-belts were lodged in their hands. The King was supposed by them to be the common guardian of his red as well as his white children, and tho rightful arbiter of all differences between them. Thus, while the sovrcignly of the British crown covered alike tho territory of the colonists and the Indians, both, had by many treaties agreed, that its possessions and occupancy should be held by the Indians as its first owners, till by treaties between their chiefs, and the colonial Knglish authorities, they might from time to time transfer to their white brethren parts of their possessions.

Previous to the commencement of tho revolution, the Indians had sold all their lands in Pennsylvania to the Colony, except a portion of its northwestern part, lying west of tho Husquchanna. Tho boundary of the Indian lands in Penn'a at this time, was tho Susquehanna on tho east from tho north line of the colony where tho river enters it from New York, about three miles above the present borough of Athens, down along tho river to the mouth of Towanda creek, thenco in a sovlh-ieesLerhj direction tho boundary was designated by hills and streams till it reached tho Allegheny river iu what is now Armstrong connty, thence down that and the Ohio rivers to tho west line of the colony. In the colony of New York, the Indian possessions were at that time much more extensive, as they had only sold west as far as tho head waters of the Susquehanna, and along its course on the cast side to the Penn'a line, and north of that to the west as far as tho upper waters of tho Mohawk river, leaving them owners and occupants of Central and Western New York. In this extensive aboriginal domain, tho six nations of the Iroquois held their ancient exclusive possession. In it, were their hunting grounds and their planting grounds, their towns and their homes.

When tho war between tho colonies and England began, the Indians were told by the colonists that it was no cause of theirs, and advised to remain neutral and in peace. But they were also told, by emissaries of the British government who went among them, that it was a rebellion of a part of their English father's children, which ho called upon them to assist in subduing. Finding many of their white friends among the colonists warndy engaging in tho King's cause, they soon took up the hatchet to join them. The last effort by the colonists to induce (he Indians to remain at peace, was in JuneofHTT. Its real incidents surpass in interest all the romance of history.

Brant, tho Mohawk, who was at that time tho most celebrated chief among tho Iroquois, had gathered a large force of hostile Indians on the Susquehanna, at a place where the town of T'nadilla, iu N.Y., now stands, and Oen.IU'i'kimcrwiis sent with an The Susquehanna and its brandies were joentral in these frontier scenes, and along its vallio.3 and among its hills the Indian war-cry rose in every forest, and tho blows of his hatchet fell thick and bloody at the homos of the pioneers. Tioga Point and its neighborhood was at that time the great rendezvous of Indians and Tories, and in Juno of 1778 they made a descent upon Wyoming, with a force of 500 Indian warriors and Tory rangers. Tho bloody scenes of July 3d at that devoted settlement, have been often writton.and I need not repeat them here. Wyoming had been tho only fortified place on the Susquehanna above Sunbury, and when it fell, all the, settlements on both branches of tho river were nearly unprotected. The harvest season was at hand, with few to gather tho much needed crop, and starvation was about as much to bo dreaded as tho Indian's rifle.

It was at this time that Col. Thomas ILum.KY was sent, from tho main army under Washington in New Jersey, to take command of the scattered forces on the Susquehanna, and defend, as best ho could, the distressed inhabitants at N4'thumber-land and on the Branches above. As the commander of our first military expedition to Tioga Point, his name deserves a brief notice in this narrative. Ho was born iu Berks county. on tho 7th of Sept.

17-18, but settled early in York. There ho studied law, and commenced practice, but at the opening of the Revolution he suspended his profession and entered the army, where he soon became distinguished, and rose to the rank of Colonel. He was in the battle of Monmouth in June of 177H, anil iu the heat of the engagement, while tho issue of it was in ei'df doubt. Wa.dimgt'v.i sent for h'ui and said, 'I have sent fir you, Colonel, to employ you in a serious piece of service. The state of our affairs renders'it necessary that a part' of this army should be sucrJiml for the.

welfare of the whole. You command an efficient corps," (a fine regiment of Germans from York and Lancaster.) know you well, and have therefore selected you to perform this important and serious duty. You will fake such a position describing it to him and hold it to the last extremity." The command was a forlorn hope. Col. Hartley bowed with a smile of exultation and replied, ''Your excellency does too much honor; your orders shall bo obeyed to the letter;" and then hastened to his post of dangerous duty.

Tho Board of War. upon hearing of the disastrous battle of Wyoming, ordered in Council, en the l-ilh of flic same month, (July.) Col. Hartley to march, Willi a part of his regiment, immediately, to Sunbury and there join his forces with and tab command of such troops as could be raised in the frontier counties for their protection. This was immediately after the battle of Monmouth, which was fought five days before the battle of Wyoming. Col.

Hartley arrived at Sunbury late iu July. He at once entered vigorously upon the duties of his new command, giving aid to secure toe needed Harvest wliieii was ungathered.and established small garisons on the North Branch at Wyoming and on tho West Branch at Money. These were preparatory to an expedition into the Indian country, there to attack the savages in their own home. Up to this time, our troops on these frontiers had acted on the defensive only, and so various were the paths by which tho Indians made their inreads.that no permanent benefit had been gained by all the blood spilled in repelling them. Much has been said in history of Gen.

Sullivan's expedition in the following year, and the idea of carrying the war against tho Indians into their own country has often been ascribed to Washington. But there is documentary proof in the archives of our State, that neither Washington, Sullivan or Hartley first devised this plan. It was Gen. John Armstrong, of Carlisle.who first proposed this mode of warfare against tho Indians of the North, to the Board of War, in May of 1778. His plan contemplated the same objeets.and the same means to effect them, which were the leading features of both Hartley's and Sullivan's expeditions.

Hitherto, every scene of bloodshed and hostility between tho Indians and whites in the war of tho Revolution, had been in territory which we had purchased from them and every home they had desolated was on ground which they had sold to our fathers. Tioga Point, and all the country about it on the north and west sides of the We remember an instance of an aged man, wdio in his last sickness remarked he llaJ fulrs of 1,18 ftlture he dreaded '-the pangs of death." We knew bis condition and what would bo his mode of dyng, and assured him that ho would die in as placid a slumber as crept over him in infancy; and so it was; ho wont into a gentle sleep, and slept into death. In many cases, disease poisons the blood and renders it unfit to nourish and sustain tile brain and nervous system. The senses are benumbed, and death conies when the person is insensible. The blood may be, and frequently is in very different conditions.

Chemically speaking, urea circulating in tho blood product stupor and death in a state of profound coma. Carbonic nciij.when inhaled and taken into tho circulation, or when it fails to be exhaled from tho lungs, causes a similar stupor and death. We do not propose to give the pathology of the blood of the various diseases, nor its morbid conditions that cause stupor before death. But wo will saya few words of tho modes of dying from various causes, some of which the patients retain and others regain their mental faculties before death, and die easily. Dr.

Lallocho, of Philadelphia, wrote an interesting essay for Hammond's Journal of Psychological Science January 18(i0, on the subject of the resumption of the mental faculties at the approach of death." The intention of tho learned author of this essay is to show that in cases where a sick person has for some hours or days been lying in delirium, ho may suddenly become conscious, may speak with wisdom, with power of memory, it maybe with pleasure, and yet speak thus as a presage to the death which quickly follows. Ho gives the clearest evidence of this fact and the frequency of tho phenomena, in the course of tho acute fevers endemic in hot climates. Every physician of large experience will cer.tify to the correctness of Dr. LaRoche's statement, and if they have never seen yellow fever, they have seen a condition closely resembling the phenomena in certain cases of inflammation of the brain and its coverings. Dr.

LaRocho remarks, in "yellow fever, the stage of inflammatory re-action continues with little or no mitigation from some hours to three or four days, generally from sixtv to seventv-two hours.aud is succeeded by tho state of remission without pulse loses its excitement, becomes aluiost natural or slower than in health, or rapid, feeble and nearly imperceptible the skin regains ifs natural temperature, then is colder and colder, and bedewed with cold ,1 -C 1 1 1 1. perspiration; sue pain oi uie nuu, imui, and limbs disappears, or is greatly diminished. The redness and glistening appearances are no longer apparent, but the red- i ri'l noss'is replaced oy a yenow tinge, a nose signs, in the general course of the disease, portend approaching death, yet are they accompanied with other signs marvelously singular. The wandering or violent delirium, the seeming sensibility or deep sleep (coma) subside more or less completely; tho patient, who somo moments before raved like a maniac, or talked irrationally, or could not be aroused, regains his natural condition of mind, thinks or endeavors to represent himself; converses rationally on all subjects, is cheerful, sits up or gets out of bedjWalks with a firm step, expresses an appetite for food, and relishes what ho takes, and after enjoying this state of repose for some time suddenly faints and expires, Hippocrates speaks of death having occurred in a similar manner, where per sons had been delirious and in a state of stupor, awake to consciousness and relate what had been said by their friends wdien it was supposed they were uncon scious. J-hoy would tallc on all subjects intelligently for a short time, then grow faint and die without a struggle.

Dr. B.W. Richardson says, ''the natural rule of physical death by nature runs as plainly as it can be written, that tho natural man should know no more concerning his own death than his own birth. At his entrance into the world he sleeps into existence and wakens into knowledge at his exit from the world-, his physical cycle completed, he dozes into sleep, and sleeps into death." Dr.Ilichardson calls this purely painless, purely natural physical death, the true euthanasia, and that it is open to every race and nation that obeys the laws of health uud liaiurcaiud death would neither tho price is a mere song fifty dollars. They have proved their efficiency in preventing disastrous conflagrations, both in this city and throughout the country.

(X. B. I don't get anything for this puff.) A 'practical exponent of women's rights in the shape of a Chicago lady, recently (doubtless emulating Mesdamos oedhuil Claflin of New York) implied for ad mission to the Chicago Board of Tradc.but that virtuous body turned up their noses at (he idea of having a female scalper among them. Speaking of the Board of Trade reminds me that Mr. F.

L. Welles, formerly of your town, is now one of the prominent members of that extensive organization. Mr. W. has fitted up a fine office in the Chamber of Commerce building, and.with a full complement of assistants, is doing a largo business, operating extensively in wheat and corn.

Let me give you an eastern version of 'the moral standing of Chicago, and as illustrative of what I wish to say, I will repeat an old but good saying of a little girl whose family wcro about removing from Boston to Chicago; as they were taking leave of their old homo tiio child turned around and said, "Good bye house; good bye flowers good bvo garden good bye God I'm going to Chicago to She had doubtless heard her parents speaking of (ho awful wickedness of this great fity, and. childlike, thought God unknown The morals of Chicago will not suffer by comparison with those of any city of the like size in the States. You at tho Fast seem to think that Chicago is a sink-hole of iniquity. I can only account for this erroneous opinion by the fact that some Chicago papers blazon forth to the world, with Munchausen-like each and -every offence against law, society. Ao.

invading almost one's bouse, and hashing up for the pu'oiie the of pritato life..