The American patriot., 1855-02-14


are only emanations from cxqusitcly organized
matter, just as perfume is the ctucncc OF flowers,
or music the ethereal product Of an H1diian harp.
If young man, melted by selfish principles
alone, inquiries how he shall make his appetite
yield him the largest amount Of qualification, the
answer is by Temperance. The true epicurean
art consists in the adaptation of our organs not
only to the highest but to the longest enjoyment.
Vastly less depends upon the table to which we
sit down, than upon the appetite which we carry
to it. The palled epicure, who spends five dollars
for his dinner extracts less pleasure from his meal
than many hard laborer who dimes for shilling. 1
The desderatum is not greater luXuries; but lve-I
ler ,oopille; and if the derotce Of appetite would
propitiatc his divinity Alright he would not send
to the Yellowstone for buffaloes' tongues, nor to
France for pate de tois giws., but would climb
mountain or swing an axe. With health, there is
no end to the quantity or the variety from which
the palate can extract its pleasures. Without
health, no delcacy that nature or art produces
can provoke zest Hence, when man destroys
his health, he destroys SO far as he is concerned,
whatever of sweetness of flavor and of SAVIOR, the
tceming earth can produce 10 him who has
poisoned his appetite by excess, the luscious pulp
Of grape or peach, the nectareousjuices oforangc,
Or pineapple, are but II loathing and nausea He
has turned gardens and groves of delicious fruit,
into gardens and groves of ipccac and aocs.-
The same vicious indulgences that blasted his
health blasted all orchards and cane fields also.
Verify, the man who is physiologicaly wicked
does not live ont half his days. nor is this the
worst of his punishment, for he is more than half
dead while he appears to live x
i ask the young man, then, who is just forming
the habits of life, or just beginning to indulge
those habitual trains of thought out Of which
habits grow, to look around him, and mark the
examples whose fortune he would covet, or whose
fate he would abhor. Even we walk the streets
we meet with exhibitions of each extreme. Here,
behold patriarch, whose stock of vigor three
score years and ten seem hardly to have impaired.
His erect form his firm step, his elastic limbs, and
undimmed senses, are so many certificates of good
/ conduct; or rather SO many jewels and orders of
nobility with which nature has honored him for
his fidelity to her laws His fair complexion
shows that his blood has never been corrupted
his pure breath, that he has never yielded his d-
gestivc apparatus for vintners cess pool his ex-
act language and keen apprehension that his brain
has never been drugged stupitied by the poisons
of distillcr or tobacconist Enjoying his appcttes
to the highest, he has preserved the power OF en-
joying them. Despite the moral of the school
boys story he has eaten his cake and still kept it,
As he drains the cup of life, there less at
/ the bottom. His organs will reach the goal OF
! existence together. Panlessly as a candle burns
down in its socket, SO will he expire; and little
imagination would convert him into another Enoch
translated from earth to a better world without
tho sting of death. .e.
But look at an opposite extreme, where an op-
positc history is recorded. What wreck so shock
ing to behold as the wreck of dissolute man,
the vgor of life exhausted and yet the first steps
in an honorable career not taken; in himself q la
zerhousc of disease; dead, but by heathenish
custom of society, not buried! Rogues have had
the initial letter of their title burnt into the palms
of their hands; even for murder. Cain was only
T. = i. tI,p -h,1n
son of the debauchcc the incbriate, the sigma
lures of inf;ny are written How nature brands
him with stigma and opprobrum! How she hangs
labels all over him. to testify her disgust at his
existence, and to admonish others to beware OF his
example, How she loosens all his joints, sends
tremors along the muscles, and bends forward his
Frame as if to bring him upon all-fours with kin
dred brutes or to degrade him to the reptiles
crawling! How she disligures his countcnance,
as if intent upon obliterating all traces of her own
image, so that she may swear she never made hlm.
How she pours rhcum over his eyes, sends foul
spirits to inhabit his BREATH and shrieks, as with
trumpet from every pour in his body, "BEIIoLD
A BEAST" Such man may be seen in the streets
u of our city every day; if rich enough he may be
found in the Saloons and at the tables of the
"Upper Ten;" but surely to every man of purity
and honor, to every man whose wisdom aswcll as
whose heart is unblcmishcd, the wretch who
comes cropped and bleeding from the pillory and
redolent with its appropriate perfumes, would be
a guest or a companion far less offensive and dis
gusting.
Now let the young man, rejoicing in his manly
proportions, and in his comeliness, look at thu
picture and on this, and then say after the like
ness of which model he intends his own erect sta
ture and sublime countenancc shall be cOntigured
, CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAr.-Sevcral attempts
having recently been made to rob the city Treas
urer's office in Cincinnati, Mr.. Johnston, tht
Treasurer, fixed trap to catch the thief by pac
/ ing trigger on the latch of the door to which h
, attached wire communicating with bell in tn
watch-house in the farther end OF the building, t
give notice to the officers that the Treasurcrs offic
was again entered, and for them to run and ar
rest the deprcdators A night two since MI
j. fixed the trigger and left the office, but forgo
| to take with him new pair of boots that he ha
a purchased during the day At late hour tn
] same evening he returned to the Office to get hi
boots and, forgetting the trap, he opened the doc
! and went in. In moment two policemen rushe
into the Office and seized the Treasurer and hun
a ricd him to the watch-house where they rctaine
6 him in custody over an hour. Mr.. j. used ever
= argument to them that he was the Treasurer, br
/ they being recently appointed refused to bellev
;, him until the Lieutenant came and released hir
from the "lurancc vile"
d ExrRAyAGAScE-Therc is not country in tn
d world where the people are becoming so extra
agant in the mode of dressing and living as in til
s. United States 1t is one of the worst signs of tn
e times The habits of the mushroom aristocrac