Independent American and General Advertiser (Newspaper) - June 6, 1845, Platteville, Wisconsin INDEPENDENT AND GENERAL THE WORLD'S MY FILBERT WHICH WITH MY CRACKERS 1 WILL BY j L M A RSI i PLATTEVILLE W T JUNE 5 1845 01 IIV ANO FOR DIS'iR COURT Hon Judge J M c Prosecuting Attorney L O iTK COURT II Judge COt NTY COURT II ir in If nry L L O r Sheriff id ill IE i Cm I1 IV jij 1 f 11 A run OF President N i h J N 1 liars i and y Justices of the J nc j ick 1 ol man j rC If Oni BV W T HJ IN UY i I OLD OF 3M T EL DIALEK in B wiro Provision Ate ff i Do Dry -e Uix ts r i i i A i H of York IN 1 ry Ac corner and -IJ I'll IM iin s Hardware I IN Dry Hardware Country of Main mid M OP Tin i nl Sheet Iron ware and er in ISA Plain anil Dry Groceries and other Second st NOTICE A K M Having i in T services to the cil o village and ing i branches of Iiin Surgery and Office at M tel corner of 3 fain anil reels i j Y AND Cornor of and one door north ct tlie Hotel J Oil A KO L FOtt THE Hartford File Insurance Company over his on PL AND AT LAW Practices in the counties of ford Grant and lawn T and Hayton county T T S O PAINE COUNSELLOR AT AND Justice of 10 Peace on in the build known as Adams Tavern AT WOOD OF THE PEACE And cer at his residence on t From 1 ie Southern Journal OP MAMMA Of a Fei iale in the Mesmeric Sleep without any of Sensibility during tlie Open tion By L A M D of Physiology in the ical C of Georgia On ihc 3d of January 1845 Mrs of Jesse Clark coc nty Georgia camo to this city of getting nc to remove tumor of tier right been gradually increasing for the hst two or three years and had lined the size of a egg the tui or had never caused any pain of consequence was not adherent o the skin nor did it the C is never child and h r though by no robust was pretty good and had not been impaired by the evolution of the tumor The operation having been upon for the following day Mrs remarked to me that she liad id vised by Mr Kendrick to be but as she nothing about would like to have my ad- vice nd would abide by it To which I that there were several well cases on record in which il operations had been ed ut der mesmeric influence without the cc the patient that I woult be to test subject in her c: sc and that I would endeavor to me her instead of operating as ha 1 been proposed on the day jj On the January it 11 o'clock J on Mrs C and was icd that on the preceding ing F ie had put to sleep by Mr 11 I1 Kendrick at whose lieu e she r sided I then mesmerized her f and induced bleep in about 13 Finding iiiy patient ble the mesmeric influence and re- ig that it would not be ent IDT the same persan to maintain this and to pt a cal at the same time 1 ques ed Mr Kendrick to mesmerize Mrs C morning and evening at stated hour until insensibility could he in- ducr 1 This was done with grad lally effect when on the was in live minutes and the oi a pin was with no man of pain The sittings and the patient's in- serts daily tested by myself and others in various ways On the of 1 invited Professor Ford to be prcs and after ing the it without the evidence of pain the mesmerizer to leave the room when we exposed the breast handled it roughly in e the tumor and ed f ae without tr c consciousness of patient We then held to her nostrils a phial of strong spirits of hor i which she breathed freely for a minute or two without cati m of sensation un ess pe fact that she once be regarded as such instead of a mere reflex action On the of January in presence of Ford and Means in tiot to the usual tests I made with my poc kct knife an incision about two inc tes in length and half an inch ii dej th into the patient's leg without ind ration of sensation ully satisfied now of our power to ind ice totol insensibility 1 ed to operate on her the next day at n but carefully concealed any such dc ign from the her friends wha did not expect its performance un il several days later On the 12th of January at 20 utts past 11 A M Mrs C was put to sleep in 45 seconds without touch or MISS of any kind the facility wilh wl ich the mesmeric influence was du -ed having gradually increased at ca sitting At M in pre- sci ce of Frof Ford Ni wton and Dr the patient be ng in a profound I prepared hf for the ed my professional 1 to note pulse respiration complexion co before during and af cr the operation i i order to detect nry evidence of pain or modification of the functions As If r Kendrick had never witnessed a surgical operation he feared he might lose his n and requested to be Blindfolded w was done He now seated se f on the couch the patient and Id her hand in his during the at on This was accomplished by two elliptical incisions about eight in length comprehending them the nipple and a t arable portion of skin after which the were dissected up in usual manner and the entire mamm weighed The wound was then left open larters of an hour in order to secure thi bleed ing vessels six of which 1 gated The ordinary dressing applied and all appearances cf blood removed so that they might not be seen by the patient when roust d The amount of hemorrhage than is usual in cases During the operation the patient gave no indication whatever o sensi- nor were any o the An observed by those present mot in the least degree in the same sound and quiet sleep as before the use of the knife tly the pectoral which en laid bare was twice or thrice seen to con- tract when touched with the in removing the blood About 15 utes after the lous tion was observed in her low jaw which was instantaneously am by the application of the mesr hand to the patient's head T tis recurred in about 0 utes after and was agair in t ie same manner quieted Professor who counted the pulse and res iration states that before any prepara ion was made for the operation the p ilse was 90 and the respiration 10 per minute that after moving the to ar- range her dress for the and just before we commenced f lie pulse was 98 and the respiration that immediately after of the breast the pulse was 90 tion counted and thit aft r the nal adjustment of the band gcs and dress which required the pati nt to be raised and moved about the f was 98 and the respiration 17 present concur in stating that the cid countenance or the pat ent nor the peculiar natural cheeks experienced any change n ha ing the profound and quiet sleep in which she was before o with the exceptions above ne ted and that had they not been was being done they would not have suspected it from any by the patient's condition The patient having been permitted to sleep on about hoin after tiie final arrangement of her tress the nn made ove the scat of operation in order to n its ind aroused her in the usual manner when she en gaped i cheerful conversation Mr Ken I rick and as she no suspicion of what had taken place li if n to her the gentlemen who had placed themselves so not o be seen her on awakening and observed that I had invited them to co nc in ing her sleep in order that we might fully test her insensibility previous to the operation After a few of conversation I asked her when she would like the operation to which she replied The sooner the better as she was anxious to I added Do you really th nk that I could remove your br when asleep without your f Why doctor the fret is that from the various experiments Ian told that you have made on me 1 re illy do not know what to think of it Well Madam suppose I were to the operation one of these days and to in- form you of it when you wo would you me a id control your feelings on ti at it had been Answer could not suppose that you me and of course I would jc glad but would try not to give way to my ings Have you vcd since your arrival here or do now any change in the or linary sations of the affected No sir it feels about as it h is done for some time back About a quarter of an i our having elapsed since she woke I tl en told her that as we found her in a j roper state for the operation 1 had pe it and that the breast was no v removed She expressed her I certainly was jesting as it was sible that it could have b without her knowing it at the or feeling any thing of it She con- on carrying her 1 and to Ithe part and finding breast was no longer there She rerr lined appa- rently unmoved for a fe r moments when her friends niog to con- gratulate her her face b ed and she wept unaffectedly for some time The wound healed by the tention In laying the above narrative before the profession it is due to the cause of truth to state that it has been ted to all the physicians present at the operation and that I authorized by them to say that it accords in every particular with heir own so far as they were present 1 should also add that having no other object in view than the establishment of the fact that a surgical operation may be performed under such circumstances without the consciousness of the tient I have designedly avoided any mention of the various and interesting phenomena manifested prior and subsequent lo the operation These have been carefully and judiciously re- corded by Mr Kendrick whose well directed zeal has enabled him to col- body of highly important facts from a field unfortunately explored ex- in ignorance and ism CHARACTER OF AARON BURR BY WALLACE If had been the only person ruined by the tion of his enterprises charity suggest a burial of our remembrance of the exile's But the tims of Burr are to be numbered by hundreds The base and the peaks of society alike show the scathing marks of his fiery visitation He cherished no returned the drafts of kindled by the very fireside of hospitality the flame of lust and fell little pleasure in bidding adieu to the Larrs of his host until the dearest that in their shadows were The man's whole being tred on the pivot of selfishness But for the affliction he manifested towards his daughter his sole moral merits seem to have been courage and ness and yet clustering as were the laurels which were wedded to his baser passions so that he held it more glorious to seduce a than to glitter in the field of letters to scale the steeps of philosophy or to wave a banner victoriously in battle He courted the man to corrupt his statesman to profit by his are to obtain his the world to gratify his desires He was the more dangerous from the position of an intellect massive piercing and brilliant united to a frame at once handsome and His mind but tlie keen and resistless weapon with which his passions hewed a way to conquest weapon was tean But few could escape its ever changing attacks If the victim came fully under the gaze of an sharp light resembled lightning and forever playing in a cloud as black as was lost Burr's conversation was irresistibly his hanel swept every chord in the human harp He the rosy paths of the happy with of a still brighter hue he arched the troubled sky of the desponding with the rainbow of he conjured up before the rapt vision of the mountains of gold and to the he pointed out the shadowy vistas of glory Thus he stood gifted unprincipled ruthless and terrible The want of fortune alone prevented his presenting in one lurid dreadful and ing mass that which he but too successfully in many details Chance confined to valleys comparatively humble a tempest which only waited for a release to devastate continents It may be not his valor on the battle fields of our country to be The answer must be That was a redeeming trait No matter from what motive his military talents were our land reaped some benefit But there irc many persons who will doubt the real patriotism of one who was so ready to forswear his who trampled on so much that was sacred and who held even his exploits against tyranny as less glorious than the moral destruction of a human being Age is expected to subdue but with Burr the winter of time brought no snows to cool the lava of At fourscore and six the crater wore a glow as ardent ai at twenty His mocked at a century should bring the soothing calm of religion to enable the barque which has tossed by the storms of life to for a worthy entrance into the of another world Burr die d as he had lived practically an atheist Ate should bring Burr died as he had lived without the re- gard of the good His hoary hairs went down to the grave floating on the breeze of infamy In cunning an lago in lust n in patience a in ure in gratitude n Malay and in a Napoleon he forded the world an awful example of powerful intellect destitute of virtue His portrait would fitly appear in a j of Dante's Inferno Let no one accuse me of stepping with feet through the emn vaults of the sepulchre AARON BUR i belongs to history Such was the ht fie chose e seduced the wife ind daughter of the man gave him Jr afier the duel with Hamilton fl is own assertion e wished to claim his rights aa a Brit- ish s when in London Lord pool rejected tbe offer with contempt riTME AND THE POLICE IN PATHS The Police of Paris has long been as among the best organized in t ie world We frequently hear it spoken of as quite a model and not Ions since an article appeared in one of tic British Reviews describing the system as perfect and complete and woi thy of imitation anel emulation by the governments of all other great ies one half the accounts thai reach us be true no where rogues banded together with more tem no where do carry on their more boldness no wh are more awful crimes ted than in Paris Perhaps some of the statements alluded to are grossly ex and yet they arc often fro n e sources A of the Newark Advertiser for ex- ample who is known to be a man of intelligence and respectability say s that in the leading city of France and with Agents of Police and Secret Spies of Government swarming at all po nts the hazard of assassination is by no means slight and is equally ed by the man of courage and the id He furnishes a few rases by way of illustration long ago a yoing woman walking through the vc -y heart of the city was met near thu Italian Opera House by a man who after passing her tui ned suddenly round and placed a mask of pitch over her face so that sh 3 could neither call for assistance ncr even breathe He bound her and after robbing her of 75 left her to take her fate Fortunately was discovered and her removed before she was entirely This was transacted almost ui der the eyes of the guard and at or ly 11 o'clock at night Again he says recently the Police a particular part of the city by name to those who have read the Mysteries of Paris and from several houses 299 se ns and put them inro prison On a subsequent examination 199 of them who could give a satisfactory account 0 their manner of were set at liberty The remaining 100 were re- for trial Among them were n amorous murderers thieves and of h- e felons An entire band of assassins thieves to the number of 18 was included in this single draught of the net of the police In a part of one of these tapis called the Cave v as found the body of a murdered cam Recently also the chief of a band of robbers was guillotined Though but 33 years of agf this young had confessedly kilted ty Another case is mentioned in which a carriage was stopped in front e f resort of all the American and English 1 nd its occupant plundered at 9 in the e He Coming still nearer to roc only Monday evening last in the next f treel to me a man was assassinated and robbed of or at 10 o'clock in the evening In this short street here is a guard house and having a riend residing there 1 have been to pass through it at all lours of the night Some of my brave Americans may ask me why do not carry arms that when you a individual ALBERT AT FAULT Ofi the occasion of her Majesty's re- to Scotland the Prince turn upon the deck of the al and on approaching the cjr cooking house the olfactories of Highness were by the sweet-smelling merging from the boiling caldron iA de poter asked the al of the Queen snir you ij its the was tie re ply of the sturdy exclaimed the Prin e ish him made y said the chef de cimine igno ant of ihc rank of his tor be you enough there's and and Yah interrupted the Prince but Am aw no telling ye a he said the gastronomic agai i repeating the category of dien s he Was a second time stopped by t ic Prince who was perplexed to kno v the meaning of The Scol loosing all patience exclaimed daft gowk if yc ranna understand me may be like to put yer nose into t The Prince somewhat lighted his meerschaum ed n t descended into the cabin anel his secretary to refer to the edition of tho Scotish tion try in order to find out what was f be In to this I 5 the are not i individuals Aa you Aft walking in the street pnn a man Who instantly and the t suspicion of your feeling a poniard lu your back Tin then to Into to on the defensive and draw your In a you arc robbed thrown over i ie quay inlo the next tt 01 tour seeking for you in the Morgue n und either that is not is wo hive the habit of K it that Paris U with most daring and A BRIGAND'S PHILOSOPHY U is because man's law is not God's law 1 stand upon the mountain W so tie Saws equal just there wot Id f e found to resist VV they arc unequal and may submit and tremble the less may yield and suiFer the th j free the strong and the de- terr full back upon the law of und wage war against the tice of man If you aud I baron he growing excited with the of his if you 1 v ere lo before a court of nia i justice as it is the same accused of the same acts tvo ild e ur trial be the same our tence or our No all wo ild be why? Became yoi arc de Rohan a wealthy if the land and I am none A name would make the A name would bring the sword tm head and leave yours If so it I such be the world's yet up a retribution for seli 1 a kingdom in the pusses of mountains a kingdom where the privileges arc HI law tho noble and i arid the arc those that m bow don n and suiter and the pox and the humble and the good ipi fiat have protection mi Go ask in the peasant's In e the good pastor's in of the shepherds on the n of the farmer on the plains go as c them l say if under the Our dc I icon they Jose a sheep from th -ir a shraf from aik them if when the ot tin lawless dc rs insults In ess grinds the lace of the poor 01 w heart of the ti I siy if thr re not protection tc fcc in the midnight court ol C de there is not and justice poured forth u the privileged beads above J de Leon 4 u Low you have cleared b Bob's ai fi to replied Bob with 1 ft you fool Tre my
