Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1842-02-08

fruiltv of flesh is heir 10, there is, perhaps
not one 'ol such intense yet hidden force
against mcntalu and bodily ease, as he enr.
el and consuming curse Of dyspepsia.-;
Under the effect Of no other complaint
IS the mind so completely FRUSTRATED by .
sore corporal anguish. OF all the dis.
gHlsed tiends that walk abroad among
men, there are none so strangely robed
in gloom and misery Let US pity, and
not hatshly Judge Of suicide, for in this
melancholy. disorder more often lies the
cause of lheif unhappy rashness than in
aught else.
It IS a nightmare brooding IN daylight
over the intellect! All that, in more
wholesome condition ofthe human frame
would inspire the mind with gladness,
most curiously adopts the very opposite;
aud what.in other seasons would furnish,
proper material for hope and Joy, most
Strangely assumes the .coloring of despair.
Shadows seeml hickening aroun the vic
Tim, and in the depth Of every murky
cloud he sees rank foes, with lifted dag
gers, all striking at his happiness. Strange
variations alsosform a promnen feature
in rhis complaint: Rapidly. succeeding
the darkest. moment OF dependency will
come ;imc causing the mird TO wonder
why it has beeI sad; and them, rice versd
the shadows viii as suddenly, decend
again and all the world seems but an
expended scale of utter misery.
We have with minute curiosity devoted
at ntion to this subject. We haze
incurred in scores overthe observable eff
fects that lave reache our notice. We
have seen bright and buoyant youth pre-
maturely grating Itself upon the moss
hung tree of aged in6rmity. and all un-
knowing Of the cause, the stricken victim
places vacant stare upon existence, won
dering WHY he is, or for what purpose he
shall continue. Daylight horrors crowd
down before the mental vision, obscuring
every thing of light and loneliness that
learned TO look upon and love. Inertia,
the great first cluse Of all this, is thus
driven into still further excess, until tie
evil, feeding upon ITSELF at length plum.
ges the spirit into irretrievable desponden:
cy. Action, acton is the remedy, of more
potent effect than any otiou from the
doctors shop o, il is melancholy to see
fading into decay the proud amGit Gus and
yearnings of the young
The intellectually favored: ARE ayeramong
tho peculiarly chosen victims ofthi drag
on Of disease They leave the body in
stognatlon, enchanted by the destinations
of musing, and are 'never conscious of
the fatal error until mental enchantment
itselfsuccumbs beneath the encroachment
of bodily unrest
There. can be little doubt but that some
ofthe most touching and sublime eman-
atoms of genus have sprang into crea-
ton under the influence Of this wayward
and wild complaint;
A high authority asserts that the ihca'rt
is never SO heavy as when weight imparis
obstruction TO those nice functions of In
body, which, though deemed inferior, nev.
or fail TO ach eve n terrible vengeance for
e3lect. Thus the heavy heart, overuled
by the feavy t much. gives forth pathos
Ike the solemn murmurs Of night bird
And SO hand in hand 90 sablimily and its
opposite. Mind and mat
: r.may only be dissolved froh mutual
by time, aud the finely or
Intimacy Of the twn cannot sus.
an hurt without each suff, ring equally
dental laborings have as much TO 20 with
he production of dysP5PticS as lave SEN,
ual .exresSes .ofthe table, perhaps more.
iough there are, no doubt, various other
Xctirg. causes of eqr ally Injurious effect /
'hen left to an uncurbed sway ofhabit.
These remarks are flung of, at random
1itEont any especialssubject except TO of
an lea or two, perhaps, not before no.
ID by those whom it may Concern
everything intoxicating can.
autIon and suggesting cure has already
'und PRONUNCIATION from enlightened
rofessors of medicine but our brief chan
Or will go before q large class of general
eaders WHO seldomope the books most
kelly to. yield them service.
1t is a story eden with sad and curious
lterest, this pecuia, form of mortal af.
ictioh, and perhaps if more newspaper
tcnticn was devoted to it-thc most eff.
Gent and popular method be given to lis :
wages. Ire subject. is entw ned with
athletic associations. in our memory, and {
c may seize another leisure hour.to show |
ow fine and tender an interest may be. Is
tashed to it.