Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-06-22
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH.



ancholy child. The former, in whatever slough
he may sink, cam raise his eyes either to thu
kingdom of reason or hope; but the little chile
is entirely absorbed and weighed down by one
black poison-drop of the present. Think OF {
child led to the scaffold; think OF Cupid In
Dutch coffin; or watch butterfly, after its foul
wings have been torn OF, creeping like worm
and you will feel what mean. But wherefore
The first has been already given. The child, like
the beast only knows purest though shortest sor-
row-one which has no past and no future; one
such as the sick man receives from without the
dreamer from himself in his asthenic brain I;
finally, one with the consciousness not of guilt
but OF innocence
Certainly, all the sorrows of children are but
shortest nights as their joys are but IN the
latter often clouded and staress time of life
the matured man only longingly remembers his
old childhoods pleasure, while he seems alto
pether to have forgotten his childhoods grief
This weak RENE nbrance is strangely contrasted
with the opposing one in dreams and feyers, in
this respect that in the two last it is always the
cruel sorrows of childhood, and the fevers its
dietorting glass both draw forth from dark cor
ners the fears of defenceless childhood, which
press and cut with iron fangs into the PROSTATE
soul The fair scenes Of dreams mostly play on
an after stage, whereas the frightfnl ones choose
fer theirs the cradle and nursery.
Moreover, in fever, the ice-hands Of the fear
of ghosts, the striking one Of the teachers and
parents, and every claw with which fate has
pressed the young heart, stretch themselves out
to catch wandering man. Parents, consider
then that every childhoods Rupert--the name
given in Germany to the fictitious being employed
to brighten children into obedienee-eyen though
it has lain chained for tens Of years. yet breaks
loose and gains mastery over the man SO soon as
it finds him on sick bed. The first fright is
more dangerous the sooner it happens; as the
man grows older he is less easily frightened; the
child is more easily quite darkened than the
starry heaven of the man.--Jeaa Paul Rttcher
MIND AND BoDY.--Dr. James johnson, in his
essay on Indigestion, has the following excel
lent remarks on the influence which the condition
of the body has on the mind and heart
g Many happy and lucky thought has sprung
from an empty stomach Many an important
undertaking has been ruined by bit of undi-
gested pickle many wel-laid scheme has
failed in execution from drop Of green bile :
many a terrible and merciless edict hath gone
forth in consequence of irritated gastric nerve
The character of mems minds has often suffered
from temporary arrangements of the body and
thus health may make the same man hero in
the held whom dyspepsia may render imbecile
in the cabinet"
Mr.. ]. illustrates his subject in the following
manner:
:" lately saw gentleman of brilliant talents
and prolific genius who could sit down and write
extemporaneously whole pages of superior poet
ical efusion with scarcely an effort of mind and
who would yet, from sudden arrangement of
the digestive organs, be so completely and quick
ly Frustrated in intellectual power as not to be
able to write three lines the most common SUBJ
Ject. Tn o late occasion, when lie had merely to
communicate an official transaction that REQUIRED
not more than half dozen lines in the plainest
language, he could not put pen to paper, though
the attempt was made fifty times in the course of
two days. AT length he was forced to throw
himself into post-chaise and perform a Ion .
journey, to deliver orally what might have besn
done in one minute by the pen
"ln half an hour after this task was perfor med
he sat down snd wrote an ode descriptive of his
own state of nervous irritability, which would
not have done discredit to the pen of Byron
The author of this essay has himself beer, 90
enervated by fit Of what is called indigestion.
as to be utterly incapable of breaking the seal az
a letter for twenty-fouF hours, though to all an
pearance in good health at the time. FouaiIv
astonishing and unaccountable is the daoree ot
timidity, terror, incapacity, or wha' teyer other
magic spell u is, which annihlates f. n time the
whole energy of the mind, and reno ers the victim
OF dyspepsia afraid OF his Own shadow, OF of
things more unsubstantal if pc .ssible than sha-
dows."
Again he says:
9 II is under the infuenr e of such paroxysms
IS these, am thoroughly convinced, that nine
tenths of those melanchr ,ly instances Of suicide
which shock the ears Of the public take place"
WHAT is A LADY A model lady puts her
children out to nu rse, and tends her lap dog
lies in bed till oon wears paper-soled shoes,
and pinches her waist gives the piano fits, and
forgets to Pay ner milliner; cuts her poor rela-
tons, and GO es to church when she has Il new
bonnet tur as the cold shoulder to her husband,
and tlrts With his friends !" never saw thin
bic, don't know a darnirg needle from crow
bar; wonders where buildings grow, eats ham
and eggs III private, and dimes off u pigeons leg
in pubic; runs mad after a new fashion doats
on Byron adores every new fool who grins be-
hind moustache; and when asked the age Of
her youngest child, replies " don't know indeed;
ask Betty"
The factory Of the Warrior Manufacturing
Company, near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was sold,
ON the 9TH instant, for $40 000 IL is to be
placed in active operation next fall, under the
name Of the Tuscaloosa and Northport Mauufac-
turing Company.
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