MEDICINE WAR.
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Besides the bridge war in the Legislature, which threatens to he q pretty spirited anc proiractsd campaign, there are some threat eniRg demonstrations among the medicine men-the regulars and the VolnnteerS'- Whether any considerable number ol Inc i've classes are engaged or interested in the fight, we are not informed. On the one side il is contenlcd that no patent medicine shall be sold, the component parts of which are not labelled upon tie package, box or bottle, that all who are inclined to purchase, may kaow precisely the character of the mixture to be swallowed. This proposition is locked upon as intended to exterminate the patent medicines, and the champions oi this trade, not content with making the war a defensive one, have determined te carry it into the enemy's country, and have pelitioneA for a law which shall compel tke " "resuarS" to write their prescriptions in plain English, h,and in no case to disguise the plain unpre tending herb Of the way>side, under what Jack Cade has termed cbon> unable Latin" Here is a cross fire that will: afford some amusement, if DO one is severe ly wounded. We should nos be surprised if all these legislative besiesers had leave to withdraw their petitions. People who sx> pect to cure all the ills that society is heir to, by the force of legislative enactnen.s,

 will find probably, after thorough tral,

 that other influences, except for the gresser ] violation of morality and justice, will be tts most al-Pa2ldaiu1.