Washington telegraph., 1854-07-26

HdFe ptTIetudl idUOTdtOrleS ioi It's IfCuuctlOn
close TO our own doors. As yet, however,
from our experience Of the time and man.
ner of its approach, it appears to migrate
from East to West In the words of Mr..
Simon 1T filtered along the blending line
of land and water, the shore, the river bank
and the marsh Conducted by the Odor
and the Vistula, from the swamps of Poland
to the ports of the Baltic. it ragged east and
west from St. Petersburg to Copenhagen,
with frightful severity, and obedient to old
precedents, has let US witness its arrival in
Hamburg. Twice previously, and again in
this, its third visitation, travelling from the
last mentioned town, it has reached the
northeastern seaports of our islands"
1t is forcibly and emphatically declared
by Mr.. Simon, that the epidemic preva-
lence of the cholera does not arise in some
new cloud of venom floating above reach
and control, high over successive lands, and
raining down upon them without difference
its prepared distillaton of death but that
so far as scientific analysis can decide, it
depends on one occasional phase Of an infu-
ence which is always about US, on one
change of materials which in their other
changes give rise to other ills that these
materials, so perilously prone to explode in
to one or other breath OF epidemic pestilence,
are the dense exhalations of animal un-
cleanliness. which infect, in varying proper
tion, the entire area of our metropolis'-
In short. it appears now to be a matter of
comparative certainty. that if there be pres
ent DO foul hot-bed Of corruption for the re-
ception and developent Of the migrating fer
ment, the complete poison will Lot be gene
rated.
We may here notice a singular observa-
ton, which shows the influence Of increased
temperature on the development of morbid
poisons, and the increase of mortality cob
sequent thereon. In the healthier districts
Of the city of London, it is shown by the
tables that the cold season produced its usu-
al effect in a higher rate Of mortality, in
accordance with the well known unfavora-
bic influence Of irclemercy of the weather
on the aged and infrm. But in tho un-
healthier districts, the rate of mortality in
the hot and cold months is exactly reversed,
and sumner becomes the fatal season This
is shown by Mr.. Simon from the olServa-
i0ns of other diseases which result from
the defective sanitary conditions; and it may
be presumed that the result will be seen
still more strongly marked curing the pro
bable prevalence Of cholera in the ensuing
London summer.
The cause, then, of the disease being so
clear, We have not far to seek for a prevent
ative We are all familiar with the old re-
plies of Demosthenes when asked what was
the chief part of an orator. We may init
mate the questions and answers in the pre-
sent instance. What is The chief remedy
for this evil? Cleanliness What next?
Cleanliness What next again ? Still
cleanliness of the city, of the
house. of the person. When this first and
last requisite shall be fully attained, then
the deadly enemy will be stripped of all
power to harm us; then the subtle ven
om' will be to Us so subtileth its presence
will never more be recognized. The pres
ence of the touchstone of poison will be lit
/ tie matter when the development of the
poison is no longer possible. But, alas here,
as in many departments Of the healing art.
/ it is far easier to point cut the effect which
We desire to produce, than to find the due
means to accomplish our end.
VANITY OF LIFE-The following, from a
late speech of Mr. Benton, lisa touching ex-
hibition of the vanity of political ambition :
I have gone through a contest to which
| have no heart, and into which | was
forced by combination against life and hon
or, and from which gladly escape. What
is a seat in Congress to me? have sat
thirty years in the highest branch Of Con
oress. have made name to which can add
nothing, and l should only be anxious to
say, what has been gained Z? | have do
mestic affections, sorely lacerated in these
latter times wife whom have never
neglected, and who needs my attention now
more than ever children, some separated
from me by the expanse Of oceans and con-
tinents, others by the slender bonds which
separate them from eternity. | touch the
age which the psalmist assigns as the limit
of manly life, and must be thoughtless in
deed, if | do not think Of something beyond
the fitting and shadowy pursuits Of this life,
of all of which l have seen the vanity.--
What is MY occupation Ask the under
taker that good Mr.. Lynch, whose face.
present on SO many mournful occasions, mas
becume pleasant to me. He knows what
occupies my thoughts and cares; gathering
the bones of the dead-a mother sister,
two sons, grand-child planting the cy-
press over assembled graves, and marking
the spot where and those who are most
dear to me are soon to be laid.
When man stops his newspaper on ac-
count of pecuniary forebodings, we consider
him about as gone case as if he should
conclude to stop bis daily bread for fear lie
eaor1d come To royerty