The Litchfield County post., 1828-09-18

commonly received the first "advices," of
their arrival and cooperation from seeing
half dozen of the enemy rolling in the gut
ter, and the rest in full retreat. 1t was e.
nOugh for them to see I" one of us put upon"
by the natives, to induce them to lend their
aida mother trait, more amiable than ''cOm-
bati'eness," is their unreHecting generosity to
each other. Many time | have seen
group of English and American seamen,
whose money was expended before their lib
erty was out, disencumbering themrelves of
jackets. shoes and silk handkerchief, to
:" make a raise'' for the mutual accommoda-
ton of the party:
Pnct@nHty-AmOng mechanics, is great
deSderatum. Show US mechanic who viii
get our work done by the time specified, aud
we will cherish him as the apple of our eye.
But TO the mechanic, who makes us call twice,
| fire and sickness excepted.) we bid farewell
Ia long farewell''--he's not tine man for
our money. The mechanic gains nothing by
false promises except bad name. In order
| to grasp at all the work in the nrighborhOod
many a mechanic will promise when he
knows it is not 10 his power to pertorm.-
| What is such man but liar To say no.
thing CT the vice of lying, than which there
is nothing more low and contemplate. the
mechanic, in the end. gets far less work by
false promises, than he would by strict ad.
herence to the truth. PunctWdilty in a mt
chanic is the soul of business, the foundation
of prosperity, and the security of a good
repu alton.
Tendency Of Intoxicating Liquors to produce
honocy all the causes which by prom"t-
ing actions and movements in the living body
disorder the functions of the intellect the FREE
quent use Ofardent spirits is the most prolific
1t would be well if the law defined the cir
cumstances under which it may be justiiable
to prevent men from eifecting their own >drs-
truction, and involving their families in mise
ry and ruin. All good legislators have endca
| vored to oppose the progress Of drunkenness.
1t was prescribed by Scion and Lycurgus at
Athens and Lacedemon. The ancient Sara
Gems, Garth agenians, the Neryii, used no spir-
| ituous liquor, because it made them rffemin-
ate. Amongst the Romans the vice was obi
Gus; and the Koran of Mahomet expressly de-
MES wine to the Mussulman. ''Wine biteth
like serpent and stingeth like an adder" and
our own unequalIed bard declares, that {" every
lnordinate cup is devil The immediate et-
feet of wine on the human frame, is to increase
the GIRO ulatiOn, excite the brain, and by pro-
duclng an unusual determination to it, irritate
and force it into serious irregularities. When
violent and preternatural accumulation of
blood in the vessels of the head keep up this
irritation permanently, the intellectual opera
tions become suspended or depraved, and in
sanity is the final consequence. In constitu-
tons where there is d disposition to insanity
or idiotism, the pdrOxysm will often be bro't
| on by intOxiCation, and continue for months :;
remote but certain consequences of the abuse
of fermented liquors are the disorder of the
| stomach and digestive organs. and subsequent
disOrganZation of the liver and alteration of
its secretons. The sympathies of the visce-
ra with affections of the head, and with anxi-
ETY. of mind, were known to the writers of sa.
cred history. and the remarkable dependence
of mental disturbance ON disorderpd state
ofthe abdominal viscera is now well establish
ed. A man about middle aged who had held
respectable situations as non commissioned
officer,was admitted into the asylum the 18th
of April 1895 his disorder was ofshort date,
and said to have been produced by ntoxica-
tons. He was quiet and inofftnsIyr hut de,
jectedIy thoughtful; and he asserted that his
wife. who had lately died. was always about
him urging him to self-destruction, and re-
qniring him to perform extraordinary acts of
eXpiation for his neglect of her. His case was
marked with evident disorder ofthe digestive
organs and hectatic depravity means were
taken to alter and restore these to their heal
thy action; mercuriaI purgatives and tonic d.
perients were used with effect, and the recov-
cry of his reason was progressive with the i'm
prOvement of his abdominal disease. He was
discharged from the hospital the 18th of May
perfectly recovered in health and Intellect
When man is depressed by worldly misfor-
tunes. he will often seek dissipation of his
gloom in the cheering stimulus If wine or spi-
rits (which carries in its draught the last con-
fusion of thought" TO this momentary re-
lief from mental snfferings, dsordered stat e
of the circulation and digestive organs will in
variably succeed; which reacting on the brain
increases the mental agony, and gives it a
more St we're and acrimonious character. If
the practice is persevered in. the weakened d.
sestive faculties cause the permanent disor-
der of the viscera, and renders the determin-
alton of blood to the head habitual. The
brain becomes more liable to be affected by
the stimulus Of the mind and reacts on it to
the aggravation Of the original disturbance
Thus common grief, which in health would
soon subside, is converted into a compound of
cerebral and visceral arrangement, aggrava-
ted in its progress, frequently uncomfortable
nv medicine and which will he likely IN for