Weekly Miners' Express

It becomes our painful duty to announce to the public the very serious and truly distressing intelligence, that our worthy neighbor and cotemporary of the Tribune has "gone mad."

We had observed, for some time, a strange peculiarity in the conduct of the individual, but not being acquainted with the idiosyncracies of his constitution, had indulged the hope that it was nothing more than a temporary hallucination, and that it would, in a short time, pass away; and leave his mind in its usual healthy and vigorous condition.

But such are the fallacies of hope! His friends, who were better acquainted with the weakness and frailty of his intellectual powers, had looked with trembling anxiety to the excitements of the past week, and feared the shock-and its consequences! Their worst fears have been fully realized.

The milk-and-waterishness which had been observed to characterize all his acts for a long period of time, and which had portended some strange up-heaving of his powerful brain, has, at length, yielded to the most wild and incoherent ravings.--The tameness and docility which has been apparent in him, are but the deceptive calm which preceded the Cerebral Storm. The mild zephyrs that wafted in gentleness and quietude his little intellectual bark, now rage in all the fury of the tempest, and the mental ship, with all its precious freight of large ideas and powerful conceptions, now lies a wreck with its fragments scattered in wild confusion.

How melancholy the spectacle!! and how truly afflicting to those dear friends who now weep around his bed-side!

On Thursday night last he was observed to be very restless;-he desired the candles to be kept burning, and refused to retire to his bed for the whole night. In the fore part of the succeeding day he seemed more calm, and was prevailed upon to eat a little milk porridge. This seemed for a time to have a soothing effect, and served to revive the hope of his anxious friends that all was not lost.

But, oh! the flattery of hope! as the shades of evening drew nigh, his symptoms returned in all their melancholy violence. Poor fellow!-he seemed conscious of the mental darkness that was fast closing around him, and of the blighting weight that was pressing upon the constitution.

We have recorded something of his incoherent ravings-he mutters of locofocos and the constitution!--the following is all we could catch:

"This is the history of Locofocoism everywhere; or, if the scene is varied, it is but to introduce the mammonth extravagances and swindling profligacy of a wholesale, log-rolling system of improvement, such as has crushed the people of Illinois to the earth beneath an insupportable weight of debt and taxation. It is ever characterized by extremes, whether in the dogmas of politics, or the affairs of trade. To-day it claims a liberty wild as that of the untamed savage, and to-morrow it would forge fetters for all. Would, did we say? Nay, it does. Our own thrice happy country is not the only one where Locofocoism flourishes.- It is found wherever a tyrant breathes, or a captive sighs. Its whispers are heard in the courts of Kings, where designing and pliant knaves "bend the pregnant hinges of the knee, that thrift may follow fawning;" and its ragings are beheld in the mad decrees of unchecked despotism everywhere. Are illustrations of this needed? They are to be found in our very midst. The little town of Dubuque might indeed furnish examples for the world. Without naming a time, or place, or an individual, we will inquire-Who does not know that within a comparatively short period of time, at a Locofoco meeting, physical death was denounced from the speaker's stand, by a noted leader, against any who should dare to vote in opposition to the wishes of the leaders of the party?"

This melancholy case demands, and we hope will receive the most careful attention on the part of both Physician and nurses.

We are never in the habit of obtruding our advice upon medical or other subjects, but simply beg leave, in the present instance, to suggest to the attending physician the propriety of shaving the head, and applying an inflated bladder thereto. This is on the principle of the modern Homeopathist physicians, whose motto is that "like cures like." A moderate dose of Hellebore might be administered upon the same principle. If this should fail to effect any improvement, a milder course must be resorted to. Good nursing will effect more than medicine. Warm applications to the "understanding," with occasional doses of hoarhound and mullen, catnip and spignut, gill-run-over-the-ground, the roots of briars, and the green of elder, put in a little sweet cream and simmered over a slow fire, may possibly restore him to his original soundness.