The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-05-30


f No rejecting mind can fail to be struck wit
f the unusual number Of sudden or almost II
4 Simultaneous deaths reported of late By the ps
3 pers throughout the whole country. II we e.
: cept casualties and suicides, the affections t
which these cases are ascrbable originate
everlasting the system. The United States
? emnently business community; too much S
for its highest physical, mental, or moral vel
being. Our people work too long and too stea
Oily, and do not have sufficient rational recre
alton. The care worn, anxious, pallid Amer
lean countenance has become proverb; tn
hurried gait, giving the observer the idea tia
most Of the occupants of our cities and town
are pursued by constables, is powerful caus
v doubtlesSs in connexion with the mental ''ho
haste Off many affections. That this habit
ruling mind and body, must be aprolifc source
of the development of apopletic seizure in ma
ny, can hardly be deemed an unwarrantabl,
conclusion, so at least believe our most emf
nent medical writer's. The occurrence Of at
tacks of this nature in persons comparatively
young, and especially in those in thessigor O
life and absorbed in engrossing and responsible
pursuits has been remarked with frequency
which should at once alarm and warn those
similarly engaged. Mature will assert her
rights, and broken physical laws will in some
way be vndicated." AS people, we cannot
at all compare with most other nations in being
amused and recreated. While nearly ALL es-
pecially on the European continent, are proper
~ thus cared for by their governments, we are
rarely able to unbend from daily tasks by a
general HOLIDAY. The few days so observed
are rather occasions of fatigue and excess to the
active participants, and of multifo1'm endurance
to others. There should be some mode of re-
Taxation for those from whom great physical
and mental exertion is required, whether they
be merchants, mechanics, or sedentary profess
sions. Let the anxieties of business be relieved
by occasional vacation of exerton, and while
the constitution will last longer, the renewed
energy acquired will make ample returns for
the hours spent in leisure. Instances are too
frequent of over-taxation Of the physical and
mental powers, resulting in quick and melan
choly bereavement, leaving families alike over
with grief and too often almost Who'll
y unprovided for. If the consequences of such |
1 course are not immediate, they are often par
ial and lingering, and the man who might have
ived to an old age by duly regulated exertion,
inks into the confirmed invalid at thirty, or
inds himself verging upon mbeciity after an
dmonitory stroke of paralysis. Whenever the
depression of spirits entaIed by too great or
rolonged labor leads its victim to the daily use
f stmulants as temporary relief, the chances
re hundred fold increased that troubles of
ne brain will be manifested Medical writers
eclare that 'cerebral diseases are induced BY
% long continued and severe application to bus
less especially, and the general effects of such
nature as fostered by the system of 'all work |
I'D play" because they are the most fire. {
uent manifestations thus arising. That Sud S
en- death by cardiac disease or rapture oflaree s
essels, may, and often does, happen in scenes T
wild carousal, drunken frolic, OF furious quar- t
i, such as are getting to be so common in our I
ties and towns, is nearly sure Most of the &
rcldes committed in the country are undoub-
dly brought about through a like agency
aklng these things into consideration we can s
ot but believe that less crowding of the brain :,
II of tho b,, j-
time allowed for it, so that those T
ho can now only snatch a few hours, and are +;
tempted to spend them in riot ands b
:travagance, might look forward to frequent n
nods otrelaxation-and more attention to the =
VS. Of life, would ward otfmany of the causes, !;
ID thus vastly diminish the alarming num- q
+, of sudden deaths, reterrble to any of the +,
,encles of which we have spoken. +,
GOLD ON THE Administrative Missouri pas
rs are filed with accounts of the discovery of y,
large gold mine on the head waters of the \
rkansas river, about 500 miles west of Spring. 4
Id, Missouri. The mine is said to be as rich o.
any ofthe gold mines of California, and hun !,
eds of dollars have been taken out in one w
eek. The statements is confirmed, also. by +,
counts received from Indians and hunters, II
no have examined the locality. The region II
a mineral one, and has long been supposed tt
contain precious metals. The gold fever is
evaIllng to great extent in the southwest
untes of Missouri, and people are preparing a
forsake agricultural and all other pursuits, II
d turn their attention entirely to gold digging. b
Springfield the epidemic has attacked every al
ung man IN the town, and company has p
en- formed to march, as soon possible, to the y
W Ell Dorado. The new gold mines in all u
extend to the upper waters of Red RI
yer and its tributaries 81
we are indebted to Leonard Scott & Co., w
9 Fulton street, New York, for the April re
,. OF Blackwood's Magazine Its contents
e: Howto Dress Him, the soldier;) Psvcho-
5lcal Inquiries; part five of Zaidce, a new ro- ;
ance; Notes on Canada and the north west to
ates of America; Charles Dickens 2 review et