Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-06-05

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Next comes day dream. Look at the subject,
as he slowly and languidly emerges from the place
of his slumbers, having prolonged his fight, with
Demons round his couch, until the sun has begun
his descent to the West. His oyergorged stomach
has deranged the whole nervous system. His ar
teries dance under your touch, as if they were
acted upon by powerful galvanic battery. His
eyes are inaamed-his face red with feverish ex-
citemeut-his hands trembling-his knees weak
.his head in pain-his stomach, excoriated by the
vallainous stuff, is nauseated, and can take no
food-his vitality is at low ebb-snd the science
of Physiology would be put to its trumps to de-
clare whether the subject be really asleep or
awake. But he is awake, and yet be dreams-of
the last nights debauch-the popping Of corks-
the jingle of empty bottles-foaming cups-the
filthy flavor of ball-face-the excellent body Of
porter, perhaps-hashing wit-the quick repartee
the jest-the ribald oath and vulgar song-the
reeling head-the crash of the fall, as he measures
his length, like q hog, upon the foor-unconcio
ness and feverish sense of pardemonium-and
and the scene shifts and the dream changes
What an angel and what an employment for the
God-like mind of An immortal soul!
1tmust be admitted that the boastful, lordly man
is o gormandizer Of the first water. His stomach
is little more than charnel.hous of the slain
malt and fermented-liquor vat. Under the Ls-
vitical law, many animals were denounced as
unclean, unfit for food; but the cravings Of the
modern appetite and "drnketits" are so Unsuitable
ravenously devoured scarcely excepting noiseme
vultures and the snake and Saurian tribes. Il say
nothing finsect and beetle tribes) As for drinks
Il need only point to the hundreds Of millions
annually expended in their purchase, to prove
how dear they are to the stomach idol.
We talk of the Unsuitable grave. But what
earthly grave can compare with the sepulchre Of
mans stomach? 1t is said, the world is peopled
with thousand millions of human beings. A
thousand millions Of stomachs, then, are inces-
sanity craving for "more-more"-more frog,
more lobster-more crab--oyster-6sh-fowl-
beef-mutton-pork more --ale---cider
brandy--wine--gin- n-hock--ginger-p
beer-and last and worst Of all, buckeye 6aldaee.
Now, if each one of these thousand millions con-
sumss annually, by entombing in the stomach,
fifty animals each on an average-a moderate COM
putation-we have the proposition in Arithmetic
Il ZOO, 600, 600 \ so = $4,000, ,00O, 900, fifty
thousand millions of dead animals swallowed up
in mans stomach every year. And while this is
going on, count, if you can, the number of cork
screws employed in drawing corks-the number
of barrels, butts, frkins, kilderkins, demijohns,
porter and wine bottles, the contents Of which
have been poured down thirsty, parched throats,
and the empty vessels huddled away in the cellar
as so much of the wear and tear of mems fortunes
and stomachs. Then, estimate the number Of gal
Ions consumed-the amount Of cash cost--the
number of stomachs burnt out-of fortunes vast
ed-families beggared-sons ruined-lives des-
troyed-and souls lost; and when the statement is
footed up and the balance struck, then take your
time and tell me how much the creatures who have
done all this are like the angels. Do.
En- passant-if the money thus expended un-
necessarily for beasty indulgences and stupefying
drinks were devoted to that purpose, it would
support oil the Colleges and Schools and ell the
Churches, keep in repair all the egrave-yards-(and
much-needed contribution it would be to this
town of ours) and leave large surplus une1pen-
ded.
We read and talk about the "Curiosities of Lit
erature." But beginning where Doctor Abernethy
left off, in counsellng his fair patient how to pro-
cure dreams of her grandfather, if record of the
dreams of those within the limits Of York Dis
trict whose appetites have so far failed that they
cannot consume more than the lady invalid spoken
of, were kept for but one year and then publish
cd in volume, of all the curiosities this would
be the most curious! The pages, filled up with
night and day dreams, as I have family pictured
them, would present scenes such as the poet, in
his widest imajinings never had any conceptionof
Well, have talked of idols in the stomach, and
have told how night and day dreams are produced
Look at the picture, fellow citizens-how do you
like it? Does it appear "darkly," or do you see
it as one does reflection of the mirror? Does
it resemble an angel? Is it man? Can his appe-
tite, "drinketite" and stomach thus brutalize
him, and make him a dog-a hog? Where is the
supremacy of the immortal mind? Must that,
too, fall, in obedience to the all-conquering som-
ach. Must We cease to dream of Heaven, that we
may eat and drink and gormandize villanous
compound, and dream of hell? Was Byron right,
after all, when he said Of you ~
"Who knows thee best will quit thee with disgust,
Degraded masses Of animated DUST?
. JUVENAL.
For the YorkYile Enquirer.
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