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The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Mr. Lincoln's last speech. (search)
the 4th century. Europeans are wont to think that acupuncture is a modern discovery in surgery. It was known to the Chinese at least a thousand years ago, and is described in their most ancient medical works. The moæa, a species of actual cautery, is generally supposed to be a Chinese invention domesticated of late years in Europe. Its name is Chinese, and, in the original, signifies the dried plant used in the process. Now, if anybody will take the trouble to consult the book of Herodotus in which the manners and customs of the Libyans are treated of, he will find the whole process exactly described. These nomadic tribes tied greasy wool to the temples of their children, and set fire to it. They imagined that by burning holes in their heads they could effectually guard them against the danger of taking cold. The Romans and Greeks were far better acquainted with the properties of drugs which tend to produce sleep and insensibility to pain, than the moderns were, until at l
The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
y, nothing new under the sun, but that the ancients did some things on a scale and in a style which the moderns cannot hope to rival. Lake MŒris was said by Herodotus to have been 3,600 stadia in circumference. Now, as a stadium was 202 of our yards, this would give a circumference of 414 miles. The diameter, then, was about ontent himself with giving him the lie.--Making a thorough examination, he discovered the remains of two pyramids answering to the locality of those described by Herodotus. From these he took his departure, judging that they lay at a certain distance from the circumference. At the supposed distance he found traces of embankments, &c., answering to the circumference in question, and following them, he found that they led him back to the place he started from. Hence, he concluded that Herodotus had told the truth. This, as nearly as we can recollect, was the substance of that portion of the lecture. We are not altogether certain that Lepsius was the explor
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of delegates. (search)
om the organization of the American Colonization Society in 1817 to 1860 for the little negro colony in Africa is $1,950,238.71. "All this expense," exclaims the author, "and for what good? The world laughed at a Republic of civilized Frenchmen, yet the Colonization Society considered that negroes ware equal to it. Change the form of the negro's head, put in more cubic inches of brain, bring him to America, and then expect improvement, take away the white blood in Liberia, and, like Herodotus's great negro colony of Colchis, would fade away." And then the cost. To colonize American negroes in Africa, says Train, would require an expenditure equal to "one-half the national debt of Great Britain, and eight thousand ships, each accommodating five hundred negroes." A fleet of a hundred ships, bearing thirty thousand men to the neighboring shores of South Carolina, is ranked by the Yankees as a tremendous achievement. What do they think of a fleet of eight thousand ships, bearing
The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], The battle-field around Fort Donelson. (search)
would have stood alone. It is doubtful whether suffering was greater, though it was longer, in the retreat of the French from Moscow. Let no one hereafter say that our soldiers are paid too much. Most of the horses of many of our batteries were shot down. They had been well trained and stood fire well. The horse is the most intelligent of all animals. He has a thinking eye, it sparkles with inquiry as you approach him. He loves music, and in the horrors of battle is not afraid. Herodotus calls the horse as ranger, perhaps he was so little understood, Saturday morning, when the enemy came on in heavy columns with knapsacks on, and three times were driven back with tremendous slaughter, some batteries were ordered to positions which the enemy had before a little while occupied. The horses hesitated not to tread on the wounded, dying and dead, and the ponderous artillery wheels crushed limbs and skulls. It was an awful sight to behold weak, wounded men lifting their feeble
The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Situation. (search)
The Situation. The Grecian superstition with regard to the Theme, or supernatural voice, is familiar to every man at all acquainted with Grecian literature. It was nothing more than that unaccountable inspiration (if it be allowable to use the word in that sense) by which a highly wrought community is enabled to anticipate the common vehicles of intelligence when great events are on the wing. The Theme played an important part in the history of Greece on an occasion mentioned by Herodotus. The battles of Platœa and Mycale were fought on the same day — the first in the morning, the last in the evening — the former in Bolotia, the latter in lonia — the distance between them being at least one thousand miles. As the Greeks at Mycale were about to join battle a herald's staff was found on the beach, and the Phene proclaimed among the host, who were previously somewhat dispirited at sight of the enemy's numbers, that the great Persian army had been destroyed at Platœs that morning
The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
lexander had joined the Persians upon compulsion, and was, at the bottom, a true friend to Greece in general, and to Athens in particular. He really believed that they would not be able to withstand the power of Xerxes, and spoke from his heart when he advised them to yield while it was yet time, and avoid the terrible consequences of conquest after a protracted resistance. He delivered the message of Mardonins, which was in these words (we extract the passage from Carey's translation of Herodotus): "Men of Athens, why are you so mad as to levy war against the King? You can neither get the better of him nor resist him forever. You are acquainted with the multitude of his army, and their achievements; you have heard of the force that is even now with me; so that even if you should got the better of us and conquer, (of which, however, you can have no hope if you think soberly), another much more numerous will come against you. Suffer not yourselves, then, to be deprived of your coun
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
fied with the scene. The events of this war have, no doubt, succeeded each other with sufficient rapidity, yet they are tedious to us, whatever they may be to the future historian. It seems to us like an age since Major Anderson was upturned at Fort Sumter; and when we read, the other day, that Mr. Dudley Field proposed to carry him back, and make him hoist his flag there again, we involuntarily asked whether he was still alive, or had not died of old age. Xerxes is reported, by Herodotus, to have wept when he beheld his mighty comprehending five millions of the human race drawn out in the vast plain of Abydos, because the thought suddenly struck him that in one hundred years not a man of them would be left alive. In much less time than that the combatants in the present war will all have disappeared from the face of the earth, and then we may repeat Montaigne's standing question--Au bono? What is it all for? Oppressed and oppressors, so far as the vile integuments of h
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